Quotes by Hannah Arendt

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

#Hannah Arendt

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

#Commitment, #Future

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

#Guilt

It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble!...

#Guilt

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

#Living, #Perfection, #Trying

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an...

#Poets

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

#Sadness

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of...

#Happiness, #Self-esteem

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

#Broken Promises

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

#Friendship, #Love

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

#Attention, #Awareness, #Ideas