What did Hannah Arendt mean by: Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. Hannah Arendt Copy
Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Accountability, Home, Morality, 0 Hannah Arendt
Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Courage, Politics, World, 0 Hannah Arendt
To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Impotence, Paradox, Power, 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
The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Liberation, Rebellion, Revolution, 0 Hannah Arendt
Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Accountability, Importance, Involvement, 0 Hannah Arendt
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Hannah Arendt, Death, Escapism, Perfectionism, 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
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France