Men in plural, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
HANNAH ARENDTMen, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
More Hannah Arendt Quotes
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Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances, we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth.
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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The organization of the entire texture of life according to an ideology can be fully carried out only under a totalitarian regime.
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Every generation, civilization is invaded by barbarians – we call them children.
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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.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.
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The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
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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.
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The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them.
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Wisdom is a virtue of old age, and it seems to come only to those who, when young, were neither wise nor prudent.
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A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced upon his throne.
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The only possible metaphor one may conceive of for the life of the mind is the sensation of being alive. Without the breath of life, the human body is a corpse; without thinking, the human mind is dead.
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking it-self is dangerous.
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