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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

Hannah Arendt
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring
Hannah Arendt (1970). “Men in Dark Times”, p.115, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Hannah Arendt
Life, Thinking, Inspire
Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.

Hannah Arendt
Life, Pain, Effort
Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.120, University of Chicago Press

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Hannah Arendt
Life, Law, Civilization
Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.89, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

Hannah Arendt
Life, Blessing, Found

If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

Hannah Arendt
Life, Thinking, Doe
Hannah Arendt, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb (2007). “Reflections on Literature and Culture”, p.271, Stanford University Press

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

Hannah Arendt
Life, Excess, Common

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