It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.
Hannah ArendtMen in plural [โฆ] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
Hannah ArendtAccording to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.
Hannah ArendtThe extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.
Hannah ArendtWe are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friendโs presence, is concerned with the common world.
Hannah Arendt