Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. Hannah Arendt More Quotes by Hannah Arendt More Quotes From Hannah Arendt We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world. Hannah Arendt politicalessenceheart Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which the world is created by mortal hands to serve mortals for a limited time as home. Hannah Arendt limited-timehomehands Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality. Hannah Arendt essencejudgingmay Plurality of languages: [...] It is crucial 1. that there are many languages and that they differ not only in vocabulary, but also in grammar, and so in mode of thought and 2. that all languages are learnable. Hannah Arendt grammarvocabularylanguage Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results. Hannah Arendt withdrawalworldthinking I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi . Hannah Arendt gratitudebookyears Just as the law in civilized countries assumes that the voice of conscience tells everybody, "Thou shalt not kill," even though man's natural desires and inclinations may at times be murderous, so the law of Hitler's land demanded that the voice of conscience tell everybody: "Thou shalt kill," although the organizers of the massacres knew full well that murder is against the normal desires and inclinations of most people. Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it - the quality of temptation. Hannah Arendt lawmencountry 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. Hannah Arendt knowingtwothinking Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought. Hannah Arendt denymaderooms If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress. Hannah Arendt goalmeanpast The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought. Hannah Arendt treasuredifferentpast power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money. Hannah Arendt politicalpowerself To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox. Hannah Arendt speakpowerwitty The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All. Hannah Arendt formviolencepower Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics. Hannah Arendt conceptspolitics ... the loss of belief in future states is politically, though certainly not spiritually, the most significant distinction betweenour present period and the centuries before. And this loss is definite. For no matter how religious our world may turn again, or how much authentic faith still exists in it, or how deeply our moral values may be rooted in our religious systems, the fear of hell is no longer among the motives which would prevent or stimulate the actions of a majority. Hannah Arendt afterlifereligiousloss Our Last Will and Testament, providing for the only future of which we can be reasonably certain, namely our own death, shows thatthe Will's need to will is no less strong than Reason's need to think; in both instances the mind transcends its own natural limitations, either by asking unanswerable questions or by projecting itself into a future which, for the willing subject, will never be. Hannah Arendt strongdeaththinking the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun. Hannah Arendt governmentpowerevil Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion. Hannah Arendt philosopherconfusion The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved. Hannah Arendt conflictart
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