Hannah Arendt Quotes


Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable.


Citations

Arendt, Hannah. Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought. Viking Press, 1961, p. 196.

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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
  • Born: October 14, 1906
  • Died: December 4, 1975
  • Nationality: German, American
  • Profession: Historian

Hannah Arendt was a German-born American political theorist. Her many books and articles have had a lasting influence on political theory and philosophy. Arendt is widely considered one of the most important political thinkers of the 20th century.