Hannah Arendt Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

  Hannah Arendt

  Odds, Law, Miracle

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.178, University of Chicago Press

• Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

  Hannah Arendt

  Real, Evil, Sound

  Hannah Arendt, Jerome Kohn (2006). “Between Past and Future”, p.148, Penguin

• The strength of even the strongest individual can always be overpowered by the many, who often will combine for no other purpose than to ruin strength precisely because of its peculiar independence.

  Hannah Arendt

  Strength, Independence, Peculiar

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On Violence”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Of all human activities, only labor, and neither action nor work, is unending, progressing automatically in accordance with life itself and outside the range of willful decisions or humanly meaningful purposes.

  Hannah Arendt

  Meaningful, Work, Decision

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