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- One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what…
- No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at…
- Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no…
- True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.
- One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
- One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
- The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.
- Literature deeply stands opposed to the dominant value system-the one that rewards money and power. Writers are on the other side-they make us sympathetic to…
- The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who…
- As an atheist, I think there are lots of things religions get up to which are of value to non-believers - and one of those…
- I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying.…
- Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
- How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?' These questions are…
- The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.
- It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual…
- Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is…
- One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
- It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is…
- There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power…
- We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a…
- Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries…
- We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in…
- To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
- A world where a majority had imbibed the lessons implicit within tragic art would be one in which the consequences of our failures would necessarily…
- Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — 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
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle