Hannah ArendtFear is an emotion indispensable for survival.362Reflection
Hannah ArendtThe will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, a… ▶352Politics
Hannah ArendtPoets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.374HumanityLifeLove
Hannah ArendtWe are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for… ▶341LovePolitics
Hannah ArendtThe ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. ✨ Hannah … ▶353HumanityLifeThought
Hannah ArendtThe ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longe… ▶331HumanityThoughtTruth
Hannah ArendtThe end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2006). On Revolution, p.119, Penguin331Reflection
Hannah ArendtFreedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and techni… ▶375Humanity
Hannah ArendtThe aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1966). The origins of totalitarianism376Sadness
Hannah ArendtNo punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. ✨ Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil epilogue (1963)343Politics
Hannah ArendtKierkegaard, Marx, and Nietzsche are for us like guideposts to a past which has lost its significance. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1968). Between past and future: eight exercises in po… ▶365HopePoliticsThought
Hannah ArendtThere will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinkin… ▶343HumanityThoughtTruth
Hannah ArendtLove, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2013). The Human Condition: Second Edition, p… ▶377HumanityLoveTime
Hannah ArendtNothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1981). The Life of the Mind, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcou… ▶355LifeThought
Hannah ArendtThe history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a b… ▶311HopeHumanityTime
Hannah ArendtWherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2013). The Human Condi… ▶323HumanityPolitics
Hannah ArendtNo cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus t… ▶312LifePoliticsTruth
Hannah ArendtTotal loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1968). Totalitarianism: P… ▶367Thought
Hannah ArendtThe possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the c… ▶323HopeTime
Hannah ArendtWhen an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1963). On revolution, Viking Press323Truth
Hannah ArendtTo think and to be fully alive are the same. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1981). The Life of the Mind, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt291LifeThought
Hannah ArendtCaution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century h… ▶368Time
Hannah ArendtWe have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.357HumanityLife
Hannah ArendtThe presence of others who see what we see and hear what we hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2013). The Human Condition: Second Ed… ▶368HumanityTruth
Hannah ArendtFactual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by witnesses and depends upon testimony; it exi… ▶324HumanityPoliticsTruth
Hannah ArendtEvery thought is an afterthought. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1981). The Life of the Mind, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt325LifeThought
Hannah Arendtin addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins … ▶347HumanityLifePolitics
Hannah ArendtThe practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1970). On Violence, p.86, Houghton Miffl… ▶336Love
Hannah ArendtNobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.358Life
Hannah ArendtWhen evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.336Humanity
