Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Quote by Hannah Arendt

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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

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

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

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...

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...

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from...

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from...

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

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...

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well,...

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well,...

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable...

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable...

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more...

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more...

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road...

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good,...

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good,...

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

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

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the...

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the...

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once...

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once...

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than...

Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than...

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the...

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the...

Love, while you are able to love.

Love, while you are able to love.

When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me

When Death to either shall come -- I pray it be first to me