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- I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.
- Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad…
- Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before....
- Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. .…
- Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be…
- Each and all, we are riding into the dark. Even living, we cannot remember half the events of our own days.
- When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all…
- The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like…
- It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows…
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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