Hannah Arendt Quotes - Page 12

Quotes about:

• The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

  Hannah Arendt

  Creativity, Long, Grace

  4 Copy quote

• Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.

  Hannah Arendt

  Rooms, Deny, Made

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “The Life of the Mind: Thinking. v. 2. Willing”, Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

• These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

  Hannah Arendt

  Disgusting, Knows

  8 Copy quote

• Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.

  Hannah Arendt

  Essence, Judging, May

  Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

  4 Copy quote

• ... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

  Hannah Arendt

  Past, Men, May

  5 Copy quote

• Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loyalty, Mind, Might

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  8 Copy quote

• Kant ... was also quite aware that "the urgent need" of reason is both different from and "more than mere quest and desire for knowledge." Hence, the distinguishing of the two faculties, reason and intellect, coincides with a distinction between two altogether different mental activities, thinking and knowing.

  Hannah Arendt

  Thinking, Two, Knowing

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

Page 12 of 12

First

← Prev

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin