Arendt, Hannah

"Adventure is the pursuit of the unknown despite uncertainty."

"Music speaks to the soul in ways that words cannot."

"Faith is not belief in impossibility but trust in possibility."

"Dreams give us permission to imagine a different world."

"Humor is the weapon of the powerless against the powerful."

"Health is not merely the absence of disease but the presence of vitality."

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

"We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights."

"The human condition is such that pain and effort are not symptoms which can be removed without removing life itself."

"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."

"The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons."

"Action without a name, a 'who' attached to it, is meaningless."

"Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of events."

"We are not thinking beings that act, but acting beings that think."

"The remarkable thing about this world is not that it is deterministic or random, but that it is intelligible."

"Nobody has the right to obey."

"Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; it needs to dominate the inner man."

"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal."

"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future."

"The freedom to act is given as a condition of being alive."

"Organized forgetting must be distinguished from the natural forgetfulness that overcomes all events in time."

"The wind of thought which I have tried to awaken in people's minds is not a comfortable thing."

"Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think."

"A person is someone who is responsible for their actions and words."

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either bad or good."

"Labor is the most natural of all things, yet it is through labor that we become human."

"In a world of facts, hope is not rational."

"The human condition, insofar as it is human, has nothing to do with either labor or work."

"Natality is the human condition of action."

"The third-person perspective destroys the meaning of events as they were lived."