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- Imagine for a moment that each one of us takes only a little more care for each hour of his days, that he demands in…
- This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say,…
- These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
- All we are given are possibilities to make ourselves one thing or another.
- "Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive…
- The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot…
- Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those preceding. Up until…
- This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires,…
- All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.
- Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.…
- Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one…
- He [the "specialist"] is one who, out of all that has to be known in order to be a man of judgment, is only acquainted…
- [T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own.…
- This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as…
- What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to…
- The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be…
- I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a…
- There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle