Hannah Arendt Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Every thought is an afterthought.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If the ability to tell right from wrong should turn out to have anything to do with the ability to think, then we must be able to "demand" its exercise from every sane person, no matter how erudite or ignorant, intelligent or stupid, he may happen to be. Kant in this respect almost alone among the philosophers was much bothered by the common opinion that philosophy is only for the few, precisely because of its moral implications.

  Hannah Arendt

  Stupid, Philosophy, Exercise

  "The Life of the Mind". Book by Hannah Arendt, p. 13, 1978.

• With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.155, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

  Hannah Arendt

  Philosophy, Medicine, Perception

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

  Hannah Arendt

  Philosophy, Frustration

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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