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- The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the same as God…
- Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any…
- The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom…
- The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude…
- If God really became incarnate, and if His Incarnation can with justice compel man to change his life,then we have no alternative but to conceive…
- Of course the world of work begins to become - threatens to become - our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands…
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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