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Hannah Arendt Quotes

Hannah Arendt quotes

Deutsch Historian October 14, 1906 – December 4, 1975

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Only a man who does not survive his one supreme act remains the indisputable master of his identity and possible greatness because he withdraws into death from the possible consequences and continuation of what he began. Hannah Arendt
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object. Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt quote: "The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill..."
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. Hannah Arendt
[Justice] demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself in the limelight. Hannah Arendt
The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibilityof being unable to undo what one has doneis the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself. Hannah Arendt
Since the peace treatiesof 1919 and 1920, the refugees andthe stateless have attached themselveslike a curse to all the newlyestablished states on earth whichwere created in the image of thenation-state. Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt quote: "Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom. Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt quote: "Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because..."
Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves. Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt quote: "The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true."
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true. Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt quote: "In order to go on living one must try to escape the death..."
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. Hannah Arendt
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. Hannah Arendt
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up. Hannah Arendt
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. Hannah Arendt
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt quote: "Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow..."
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. Hannah Arendt

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