Hannah Arendt Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Hannah Arendt quotes and sayings page 4 (deceased historian born on Oct 14, 1906). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 44 we have for her.
“War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.”
“The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.”
“Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.”
“The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.”
“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.”
“Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.”
“It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.”
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
“Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.”
“Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.”
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