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Life Quotes by Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
- 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.
- No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing…
- Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life…
- If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend…
- A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its…
- 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…
- To think and to be fully alive are the same.
- There are no parallels to the life of the concentration camps. All seeming parallels create confusion and distract attention from what is essential. Forced labor…
- 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…
- 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…
- Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake.
- Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are…
- The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its…
- Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — 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 do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle