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- The difference between a healthy person and one who is mentally ill is the fact that the healthy one has all the mentall illnesses, and…
- Stupidity is active in every direction, and can dress up in all the clothes of truth. Truth, on the other hand, has for every occasion…
- It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and…
- The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is…
- Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished…
- And since the possession of qualities presupposes that one takes a certain pleasure in their reality, all this gives us a glimpse of how it…
- I am not only convinced that what I say is false, but also that what one might say against it is false. Despite this, one…
- It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!
- All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!
- and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism,…
- An impractical man--which he not only seems to be, but really is--will always be unreliable and unpredictable in his dealings with others. He will engage…
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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