Hannah Arendt ( 10 of 15 )
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are read more
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led read more
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes read more
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented read more
To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.
