Metaphysical fallacies contain the only clues we have to what thinking means to those who engage in it. Hannah Arendt More Quotes by Hannah Arendt More Quotes From Hannah Arendt The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved. Hannah Arendt conflict art Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it. Hannah Arendt five-senses reality thinking Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror. Hannah Arendt giving order facts The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work. Hannah Arendt blessing found life It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think. Hannah Arendt demand ordinary thinking The true dividing line between people is whether they are capable of being in love with their destiny. Hannah Arendt being-in-love destiny people Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities--a darkness which only the light shed over the public realm through the presence of others, who confirm the identity between the one who promises and the one who fulfills, can dispel. Hannah Arendt lonely heart integrity The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before. Hannah Arendt morning night thinking every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought. Hannah Arendt thinking Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all. Hannah Arendt affair powerful thinking The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape of 'prejudices' has a great deal of power; he is forced to learn that past reality is also a reality. Hannah Arendt running reality past Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power. Hannah Arendt violence gun perfect For no matter what learned scientists may say, race is, politically speaking, not the beginning of humanity but its end, not the origin of peoples but their decay, not the natural birth of man but his unnatural death. Hannah Arendt race humanity men every political structure, new or old, left to itself develops stabilizing forces which stand in the way of constant transformation and expansion. Therefore all political bodies appear to be temporary obstacles when they are seen as part of an eternal stream of growing power. Hannah Arendt expansion political power To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. Hannah Arendt ambitious age inspirational What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else! Hannah Arendt our-thoughts subjects Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world. Hannah Arendt sake children world Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company. Hannah Arendt philosophic company If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity. Hannah Arendt space loss men If this practice [of totalitarianism] is compared with […] [the desert] of tyranny, it seems as if a way had been found to set the desert itself in motion, to let loose a sand storm that could cover all parts of the inhabited earth. Hannah Arendt desert storm practice
