No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.- Hannah Arendt
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.
It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country.
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.
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.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
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