“The hope that after many revolutions, with all their transforming effects, the highest purpose of nature, a cosmopolitan existence, will at last be realized within which all the original capacities of the human race may be developed.”— Immanuel Kant, amazon.comTagged: Revolution, Secular Redemption, Christian Science
“You see in Kant a clash between the principle according to which you act and the principle according to which you judge.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.comTagged: Deep Thought Issues, Judgment, Moral Codes
“Thinking deals with invisibles, with representations of things that are absent; judging always concerns particulars and things close at hand.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.comTagged: Thought vs. Judgement, Thinking, Thought
“The wonder that is the starting-point of thinking is neither puzzlement nor surprise nor perplexity; it is an admiring wonder. What we marvel at is confirmed and affirmed by admiration which breaks out into speech, the gift of Iris, the rainbow, the messenger from above.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.comTagged: Where Thoughts Come From, Wonder
“The meaning of what actually happens and appears while it is happening is revealed when it has disappeared.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.comTagged: How Memory Works, Words & Actions, Narrative Fallacy, Thought vs. Action
“Metaphor is the very substance of poetry. Without it there would have been no bridge whereby to cross from the minor truth of the seen to the major truth of the unseen.”— Ernest Fenollosa, amazon.comTagged: Poetry
“Reason comes from the Latin ratio, derived from the verb reor, ratus sum, which means to calculate and also ratiocinate.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.comTagged: Etymology, Word Orgins
“In such times of political turnabout philosophy finds its place; this is when thought precedes and shapes reality. For when one form of the Spirit no longer gives satisfaction, philosophy sharply takes note of it in order to understand the dissatisfaction.”— Friedrich Hegel, amazon.comTagged: When Thinking Matters, How Ideas Shape The World, Unrest, Framing Worlds, Reality Building
“Each new generation, every new human being, as he becomes conscious of being inserted between an infinite past and an infinite future, must discover and ploddingly pave anew the path of thought. And it is after all possible, and seems to me likely, that the strange survival of great works, their rel…”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.comTagged: Conservation, Great Works