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- To be sincere means to be the same person when one is with oneself; that is to say, alone - but that is all it…
- All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.
- Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men…
- Collect all the facts that can be collected about the life of Racine and you will never learn from them the art of his verse.…
- The commerce of minds was necessarily the first commerce in the world, ... since before bartering things one must barter signs, and it is necessary…
- Freedom of mind and mind itself have been most fully developed in regions where trade developed at the same time. In all ages, without exception,…
- Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
- Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when…
- Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that…
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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