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... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

Hannah Arendt
Past, Men, May

Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.

Hannah Arendt
Loyalty, Mind, Might
Hannah Arendt (1968). “Totalitarianism: Part Three of The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Even though we have lost yardsticks by which to measure, and rules under which to subsume the particular, a being whose essence is a beginning may have enough of origin within himself to understand without preconceived categories and to judge without the set of customary rules which is morality.

Hannah Arendt
Essence, Judging, May
Hannah Arendt, Ronald Beiner (1989). “Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy”, p.96, University of Chicago Press

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

Hannah Arendt
Foundation, Revolution, Rebellion
Hannah Arendt (2006). “On Revolution”, p.119, Penguin

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.

Hannah Arendt
Rooms, Deny, Made
Hannah Arendt (1978). “The Life of the Mind: Thinking. v. 2. Willing”, Harcourt

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

Hannah Arendt
Creativity, Long, Grace

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

Hannah Arendt
Children, World, Sake

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