Hannah Arendt Quotes - Page 7

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• thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think.

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  Thinking, Speaking Up, Speak

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

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  Subjects, Our Thoughts

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• For the possibilities of being different from what one is are infinite. Once one has negated oneself, however, there are no longer any particular choices.

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  Choices, Being Different, Infinite

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.

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  Integrity, Deeds, Company

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• Goodness that comes out of hiding and assumes a public role is no longer good, but corrupt in its own terms and will carry its own corruption wherever it goes.

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  Roles, Assuming, Corruption

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.77, University of Chicago Press

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• Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

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  Reality, Thinking, Five Senses

  Hannah Arendt (2017). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.553, Penguin UK

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• Jefferson, though the secret vote was still unknown at the time had at least a foreboding of how dangerous it might be to allow the people to share a public power without providing them at the same time with more public space than the ballot box and with more opportunity to make their voices heard in public than on election day. What he perceived to be the mortal danger to the republic was that the Constitution had given all power to the citizens, without giving them the opportunity of being citizens and of acting as citizens.

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  Wisdom, Opportunity, Space

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.

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  Writing, Want, Type

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility - of being unable to undo what one has done - is the faculty of forgiving.

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  Forgiving, Done, Redemption

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.237, University of Chicago Press

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• The only grandeur of imperialism lies in the nation's losing battle against it.

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  Lying, Battle, Losing

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

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  Freedom, Successful, Men

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.121, University of Chicago Press

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• Thought ... is still possible, and no doubt actual, wherever men live under the conditions of political freedom. Unfortunately ... no other human capacity is so vulnerable, and it is in fact far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

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  Thinking, Men, Political

  The Human Condition ch. 45 (1958)

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• The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

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  Dream, Saws

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is in the very nature of a beginning to carry with itself a measure of complete arbitrariness. Not only is it not bound into a reliable chain of cause and effect, a chain in which each effect immediately turns into the cause for future developments, the beginning has, as it were, nothing whatever to hold on to; it is as though it came out of nowhere in either time or space.

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  Space, Development, Causes

  Hannah Arendt (1963). “On revolution”, Viking Press

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• The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

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  Years, Way, Convincing

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

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  Men, Political, Speech

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

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  Power, Violence, Form

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

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  Oysters, Matter, Taste

  Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins notwithstanding, possess the same conditioning power as natural things. whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. this is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. whatever enters the human world of its own accord or is drawn into it by human effort becomes part of the human condition.

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  Character, Men, Self

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• the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.

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  Political, Form, Bureaucracy

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.251, Penguin

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• The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.

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  Men, Forgiving, Promise

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• It is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent

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  Depressing, Guilt, Repent

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil”, p.221, Penguin

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• the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.

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  Home, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights

  Hannah Arendt (2009). “Responsibility and Judgment”, p.203, Schocken

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• Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action.

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  Art, Mean, Independent

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

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  Home, Ifs And, Anticipation

  Hannah Arendt (1978). “The Life of the Mind: Thinking”

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