Hannah Arendt

Quote of Hannah Arendt - What I propose, therefore, is very...

Biography - Hannah Arendt:

German-born American political theorist.
Born: 1906 - Died: 1975
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Germany
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What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.

to think

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(French, German)

Ce que je propose est donc très simple : rien de plus que penser ce que nous faisons.

Was ich also vorschlage, ist ganz einfach: Es geht um nichts anderes als darum, darüber nachzudenken, was wir tun.

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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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

Let us see to it that all time belongs to us. This, however, cannot be unless first of all our own selves begin to belong to us.

Seneca - Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Philosophize, to think your life and to live your thoughts: for that is what philosophy is.

André Comte-Sponville

As we get older, we realise that the rarest courage is that of thinking.

Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - De oratore

In conversation one ought to follow closely what is being said; in the field of impulse to follow what is happening; in the latter case to see immediately what is the object of reference, in the former to mark closely the meaning expressed.

Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

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A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal - Pensées /

I think, therefore I am.

René Descartes - Discourse on the Method /

For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

William Shakespeare - The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark /

Men should strive to think much and know little.

Music is noise that thinks.

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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

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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.

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Finding the right words at the right moment is action.

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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.

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Unthinking people are like sleepwalkers.

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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.

Hannah Arendt /

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