Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master…

Hannah Arendt
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Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
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Kierkegaard, 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 political thought, Viking Ad … ▶
The 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 burden beneath which … ▶
When 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 Press
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces. ✨ Han … ▶
Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning. ✨ Hannah Arendt (2006). On Revolution, p.30, Penguin

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