Hannah Arendt Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.”

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”

“By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.”

“The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.”

“To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.”

“No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.”

“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.”

“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”

“Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.”

“Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.”