Hannah Arendt Quotes

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

More often than not, things and people are as they appear.

I think a myth is created from truth.

The truth doesn't care what we think of it.

I think the reality is important anyway.

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

I’m not anything that you think I am.

Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

Reality is modest, it won't be seen naked.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

I think that you really get what you recognize is in the universe.

I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.

If faith is what you have to go on, if faith is the link between your beliefs and the world at large, your beliefs are very likely to be wrong. Beliefs can be right or wrong. If you believe you can fly, that belief is only true if indeed you can fly. Somebody who thinks he can fly, and is wrong about it, will eventually discover there's a problem with his view of the world.

I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do.

'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.

People think that they see, but they don't.

Truth is truth no matter what I think.

Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them... there is nothing.

All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.