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Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that

Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as somewhat external. Do I imagine myself being influential? No. I want to understand. And if others understand--in the same sense that I have understood--that gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home.

Hannah Arendt
Home, Men, Giving
Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

the right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right ... Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs.

Hannah Arendt
Home, Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights
Hannah Arendt (2009). “Responsibility and Judgment”, p.203, Schocken

Conscience is the anticipation of the fellow who awaits you if and when you come home.

Hannah Arendt
Home, Ifs And, Anticipation
Hannah Arendt (1978). “The Life of the Mind: Thinking”

Basically we are always educating for a world that is or is becoming out of joint, for this is the basic human situation, in which the world is created by mortal hands to serve mortals for a limited time as home.

Hannah Arendt
Home, Hands, Limited Time

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