Defining Quote by Hannah Arendt Download Open image “Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” — Hannah Arendt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defining Storytelling
“Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Because the meaning of a story does not lie on its surface, visible and self-defining, does not mean that meaning does not exist. Indeed,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
Stories are told over time, and so they naturally accrue meanings. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.” – Hannah Arendt” — R.L. Adams Copy Share Image
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“talking about the “meaning” of a story, we need to be careful not to diminish it, impoverish it. A story can say different things… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“It means, first, that everything that appears in public can be seen and heard by everybody and has the widest possible publicity. For us, appearance—something that is being seen and heard by others as well as by ourselves—constitutes reality. Compared with the reality which comes from being seen and heard, even the greatest forces of intimate life—the passions of the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Nationalism always preserved this initial intimate loyalty to the government and never quite lost its function of preserving a precarious balance between nation and state on one hand, between the nationals of an atomized society on the other. Native citizens of a nation-state frequently looked down upon naturalized citizens, those who had received their rights by law and not by… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“What imperialists actually wanted was expansion of political power without the foundation of the body politic. Imperialist expansion had been touched off by a curious kind of economic crisis, the overproduction of capital and the emergence of "superfluous" money, the result of oversaving, which could no longer find productive investment within national borders. For the first time, investment of power… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
the greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance. — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being. — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of… — Serena Williams Copy Share Image
I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
“There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.” — Thomas B Dowd Copy Share Image
The defining aspects of westerns are still pretty much in place - namely landscape and conflict. In other books the conflict can be internal,… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Modern societies accepted the treasures and the power offered them by science. But they have not accepted - they have scarcely even heard - its profounder message: the defining of a new and unique source of truth, and the demand for a thorough revision of ethical premises, for a complete break with the animist tradition, the definitive abandonment of the… — Jacques Monod Copy Share
I met people on college campuses who were defining themselves as genderqueer to express revolutionary feelings, or to communicate their individuality; they were gender… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
Autonomy means women defining themselves and the values by which they will live, and beginning to think of institutional arrangements which will order their environment in line with their needs… Autonomy means moving out from a world in which one is born to marginality, to a past without meaning, and a future determined by others--into a world in which one… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share
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