Hannah Arendt Past Quotations
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- All Past Quotes
- Rajneesh
- Eckhart Tolle
- Deepak Chopra
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- George Orwell
- William Shakespeare
- Paulo Coelho
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Henry David Thoreau
- Alan Greenspan
- Margaret Atwood
- Marianne Williamson
- Cassandra Clare
- Jeanette Winterson
- John F Kennedy
- Marcus Aurelius
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Mason Cooley
- Oscar Wilde
- Samuel Johnson
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Loss Quotes
Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and loss of authority which occurred in his lifetime were irreparable, and he concluded that he had to discover new ways of dealing with the past. In this he became a master when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by the citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power to settle down, piecemeal, in the present and to deprive it of ‘peace of mind,’ the mindless peace of complacency.
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Order Quotes
Culture is being threatened when all worldly objects and things, produced by the present or the past, are treated as mere functions for the life process of society, as though they are there only to fulfill some need, and for this functionalization it is almost irrelevant whether the needs in question are of a high or a low order.
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Fighting Quotes
The history of humanity is not a hotel where someone can rent a room whenever it suits him; nor is it a vehicle which we board or get out of at random. Our past will be for us a burden beneath which we can only collapse for as long as we refuse to understand the present and fight for a better future. Only then—but from that moment on—will the burden become a blessing, that is, a weapon in the battle for freedom.