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Hannah Arendt Quotes

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The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) The simple minded positivism that believes it has found a firm ground of certainty if it only excludes all mental phenomena from consideration and holds fast to observable facts  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) To expect truth to come from thinking signifies that we mistake the need to think with the urge to know  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) Power can be thought of as the never ending, self feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) It is well known that the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative on the day after the revolution  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) Whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities... Than a rigorously enforced divorce from war oriented research and all connected enterprises  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) Every organization of men, be it social or political, ultimately relies on man's capacity for making promises and keeping them  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us the lesson of the fearsome, word and thought defying banality of evil  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go, leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) 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 more master of yourself than at any other time  (Hannah Arendt Quotes) One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive  (Hannah Arendt Quotes)
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