Hannah Arendt Quotes - Page 12

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• 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

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• The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

  Hannah Arendt

  Foundation, Revolution, Rebellion

  Hannah Arendt (2006). “On Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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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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• 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

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• It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.

  Hannah Arendt

  Secret, Victory, Events

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On violence”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

  Hannah Arendt

  Gentleman, Dangerous

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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.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loyalty, Mind, Might

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

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