In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Quote by Hannah Arendt
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Hannah Arendt Quotes
- 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.
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
- 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.
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
- 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 trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
- 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.
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- Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
- The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
- Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
- Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
- If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution.
- Just because everyone can, doesn't mean they should.