Hannah Arendt - Thought Quotes

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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.

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The way God has been thought of for thousands of years is no longer convincing; if anything is dead, it can only be the traditional thought of God.

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Power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

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Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

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With the rise of Christianity, faith replaced thought as the bringer of immortality.

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It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us—the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
Of Adolf Eichmann

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Kant … stated that he had found it necessary to deny knowledge … to make room for faith, but all he had denied was knowledge of things that are unknowable, and he had not made room for faith but for thought.

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Every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.

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Kant... stated defensively that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge... to make room for faith," but he had not made room for faith; he had made room for thought, and he had not "denied knowledge" but separated knowledge from thinking.

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Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs — statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

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Of all things of thought, poetry is the closest to thought, and a poem is less a thing than any other work of art.

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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous...

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The cultural treasures of the past, believed to be dead, are being made to speak, in the course of which it turns out that they propose things altogether different than what had been thought.

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