Hannah Arendt Quotes - Page 12

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• At any rate, nothing was more characteristic of him [Walter Benjamin] in the thirties than the little notebooks with black covers which he always carried with him and in which he tirelessly entered in the form of quotations what daily living and reading netted him in the way of "pearls" and "coral." On occasion he read from them aloud, showed them around like items from a choice and precious collection.

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  Notebook, Reading, Choices

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

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  Disgusting, Knows

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• ... 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.

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  Past, Men, May

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• Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

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  Children, World, Sake

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• 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.

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  Rooms, Deny, Made

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

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• 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.

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  Creativity, Long, Grace

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

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  Loyalty, Mind, Might

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

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