In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

Quote by Hannah Arendt

Topics: Living Quotes, Perfection Quotes, Trying Quotes

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence...

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence...

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition...

The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition...

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by...

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by...

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit...

The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit...

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible...

Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible...

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up...

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up...

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

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

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that...

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that...

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which...

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which...

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and...

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and...

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary...

It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary...

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon...

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon...

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes....

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes....

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

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