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Human Quotes by Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means…
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history…
- The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes…
- Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
- The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally…
- There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly…
- Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which…
- The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in…
- There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty…
- Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon…
- Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of…
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
- Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into…
- in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made…
- Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action -- the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the anonymity of its authors --…
- I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs…
- Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
- Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the…
- Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest…
- Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political,…
- Promises are the uniquely human way of orderin The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds…
More Human Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — 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
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong