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The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

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Hannah Arendt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1906
Born: October 14
Died: 1975
Died: December 4
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the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did.
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Power is actualized only when word and deed have not parted company.
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A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented.
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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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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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Imperialism was born when the ruling class in capitalist production came up against national limits to its economic expansion.
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Since one cannot educate adults, the word education has an evil sound in politics there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.
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You think that you can judge what's good or evil from whether you enjoy doing it or not. You think that evil is what always appears in the form of a temptation, while good is what you never spontaneously want to do. I think this is all total rubbish, if you don't mind my saying so.
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Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it.
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The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
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Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.
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Caution in handling generally accepted opinions that claim to explain whole trends of history is especially important for the historian of modern times, because the last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.
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The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny.
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The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.
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