The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

Quote by Hannah Arendt

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of...

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of...

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...

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...

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

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...

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity,...

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity,...

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

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

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people...

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people...

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed...

Love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed...

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....

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...

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

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

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which...

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which...

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,...

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying...

Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying...

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

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...