“Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to to the core.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy
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“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Hypocrisy
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“… the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction between our present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Religion
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“Immortality is what nature possesses without effort and without anybody’s assistance, and immortality is what the mortals must therefore try to achieve if they want to live up to the world into which they were born, to live up to the things which surround them and to whose company they are admitted for a short while.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Immortality
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“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
Submitted by Quonation |Category: War
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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 mistakeit for a universal one.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it…. Of all things of thought, poetry is the closest to thought, and a poem is less a thing than any other work of art …”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Poetry
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“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, not to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new–but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Education
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“Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will’s need to will is no less strong than Reason’s need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar anddeceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“… whatever men do or know or experience can make sense only to the extent that it can be spoken about. There may be truths beyond speech, and they may be of great relevance to man in the singular, that is, to man in so far as he is not a political being, whatever else he may be. Men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“The 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 Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“… we have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their bundance. Whatever we do, we are supposed to do for the sake of “making a living;” such is the verdict of society, and the number of people, especially in the professions who might challenge it, has decreased rapidly. The only exception society is willing to grant is to the artist, who, strictly speaking, is the only “worker” left in a laboring society.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: World
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“The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: World
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“Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Action
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“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
Hannah Arendt
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Evolution
