By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Quote by Hannah Arendt
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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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Hannah Arendt Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
- Power and violence are opposites where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
- 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.
- 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.
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.
- 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.
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.
- Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
- Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
- You can't have a relationship when you're shooting a 14-hour day and your husband is shooting a 14-hour day in the same city. It's a time thing and it's a together thing.
- Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.
- I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends that's the good stuff in life.
- Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong.
- So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
- I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.