Hannah Arendt Quotes

There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

Hannah Arendt

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• Country music is three chords and the truth.

  

  Harlan Howard
  • Music
  • Country
  • Truth

• We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.

  

  Origen
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Religion

• I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • People
  • Done
  • Truth

• Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Absolute

• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Lying

• The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Past

• You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Truth
  • You
  • Rest

• Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

  

  Parker Palmer
  • People
  • Truth
  • Respect

• Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Joy

• Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Truth
  • Myself
  • Blind

• I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Death

• I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Truth
  • Small

• If you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide a certain measure of truth from the public.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Truth
  • You
  • Measure

• I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Behind
  • Preach

• The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Matter

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Man
  • Tell

• The neurotic ... is not the voluntary happy seeker of truth, but the forced, unhappy finder of it.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Truth
  • Happy

• Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Why
  • Truth

• I try to do collaborations with as many artists as possible. It's really excellent and fun to actually work with another songwriter.

  

  Jason Molina
  • Work
  • Fun

• I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.

  

  LeVar Burton
  • Future
  • Star
  • Vision

• Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

  

  Alexandru C. Cuza
  • Power
  • Culture
  • Humans

• There will always be One against All, one person against all others. [This is so] not because One is terribly wise and All are terribly foolish, but because the process of thinking and researching, which finally yields truth, can only be accomplished by an individual person. In its singularity or duality, one human being seeks and finds – not the truth (Lessing) –, but some truth.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Truth
  • Human being
  • Foolish