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Hannah Arendt
The ceaseless, senseless...
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible,...
There are no...
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Source: In The New...
Ideas, as distinguished...
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
Source: In The...
Storytelling reveals meaning...
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Source:...
We have almost...
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of...
To be sure,...
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities. . . than a rigorously enforced divorce...
Under conditions of...
Under conditions of tyranny, it is far easier to act than to think.
Source: quoted...
Action without a...
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
Source: The Human...
Promises are the...
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this...
Fear is an...
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
The ceaseless, senseless...
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible,...
Poets. . ....
Poets. . . are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles...
Revolutionaries do not...
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and...
Economic growth may...
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into...
As witnesses not...
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that he...
The earth is...
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
Source: The Human...
Total loyalty is...
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might...
The most radical...
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
It is quite...
It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and...
Only the mob...
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by...
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