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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
Hannah Arendt
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Hannah Arendt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1906
Born: October 14
Died: 1975
Died: December 4
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the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.
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We are free to change the world and start something new in it.
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the rule of Nobody ... is what the political form known as bureaucracy truly is.
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It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it.
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where everybody is guilty, nobody is.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.
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The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.
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Kant ... was also quite aware that the urgent need of reason is both different from and more than mere quest and desire for knowledge. Hence, the distinguishing of the two faculties, reason and intellect, coincides with a distinction between two altogether different mental activities, thinking and knowing.
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