Quote by Hannah Arendt
Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. - Ha

Ideas, as distinguished from events, are never unprecedented. – Hannah Arendt

Other quotes by Hannah Arendt

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods. – Hannah Arendt

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Truth
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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. – Hannah Arendt

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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid. – Gaston Bachelard

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If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein

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Ideas

Dont worry about people stealing an idea. If its original, you will have to ram it down their throats. – Howard Aiken

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Ideas

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea. – Pablo Picasso

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The past remains integral to us all, individually and collectively. We must concede the ancients their place, as I have argued. But their place is not simply back there in a separate and foreign country; it is assimilated in ourselves, and resurrected into an ever-changing present. – David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country

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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities. – Daisaku Ikeda

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Were learning how important it is both to preserve sibling relationships if they work and repair them if theyre broken. Were also learning a lot about nonliteral siblings – stepsiblings, half-siblings – and the surprising power they can have. – Jeffrey Kluger

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An idealist believes the short run doesnt count. A cynic believes the long run doesnt matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. – Sydney J. Harris

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