Famous quotes by Historians

"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live"

James Truslow Adams, Historian

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind"

James Truslow Adams, Historian

"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline"

James Truslow Adams, Historian

"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"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"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon, may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"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, Historian

"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"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"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"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"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"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties!"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"The Third World is not a reality but an ideology"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early"

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

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