What did Hannah Arendt mean by: if we do not know our own history, we are doomed to live it as though it were our private fate. Hannah Arendt Copy
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Forgiveness, History, Reversal, 0 Hannah Arendt
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Creativity, History, Innovation, 0 Hannah Arendt
thinking beings have an urge to speak, speaking beings have an urge to think. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Communication, Reflection, Urge, 0 Hannah Arendt
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Authority, Loyalty, Power, 0 Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Interpretation, Meaning, Revelation, 0 Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Mind, Perceptions, Risk, 0 Hannah Arendt
The business of thinking … undoes every morning what it had finished the night before. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Perseverance, Progress, Reflection, 0 Hannah Arendt
Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Destruction, Power, Violence, 0 Hannah Arendt
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
