Hannah arendt quotes on human conditions

“The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry.

Hannah arendt quotes on human conditions

But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

“Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

“The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving.

The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no on