Inspiration Quote by Hannah Arendt — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.”

“When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.”

“The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.”

“The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed.”

“I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.”

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”

“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.”

“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.”

“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

“Time is not a measure the length of a day or month or year but more a measure of what you have accomplished.”