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Quote of Hannah Arendt - Finding the right words at the...


Biography - Hannah Arendt:

German-born American political theorist.
Born: 1906 - Died: 1975
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Finding the right words at the right moment is action.


Finding the right words at the right moment is action.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Les mots justes trouvés au bon moment sont de l’action.

German
Finden des rechten Wortes im rechten Augenblick ist bereits Handeln.




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One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.


The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.




Quotes for: word


Quotes

Quotes for: word


The word flies and cannot be recalled.





Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.





The language of friendship is not words but meanings.





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.





Where words fail, music speaks.





Words make love.











Quotes for: now


Quotes

Quotes about now:


Seize the day.





You can't live at all, unless you can live fully now.





Mastery of the moment is mastery over life.





No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.





Now or never.
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Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow:
Gather today the roses of life.












Quotes for: action


Quotes

Quotes about action:


I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.





One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.





Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.





Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.











Quotes

Hannah Arendt also said...


Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.





Action, with all its uncertainties, is like an ever-present reminder that men, though they must die, are not born in order to die, but to begin something new.





The best of all will be those who know only one thing for certain: that whatever else happens, as long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves.





Unthinking people are like sleepwalkers.





What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.





If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer... And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.












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