Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an i…

Hannah Arendt
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Poets 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.
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For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2006). Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, p.243, Penguin
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. ✨ The Life of the Mind. Book by Hannah Arendt. Chapter: Thinking, 1978.
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. ✨ Hannah Arendt (1957). Rahel Varnhagen: the life of a Jewess
We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

Poets 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.

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