Hannah Quotes

The emotions I feel are no more meant to be shown in their unadulterated state than the inner organs by which we live.

the fateful equating of power with violence, of the political with government, and of government with a necessary evil has begun.

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.

What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else!

The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.

To speak of the impotence of power is no longer a witty paradox.

While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.

It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of ‘destiny,’ you not only change its ‘natural laws’ but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

A functionary, when he really is nothing more than a functionary, is really a very dangerous gentleman.

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.

every thought is strictly speaking an after-thought.

Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

The end of rebellion is liberation, while the end of revolution is the foundation of freedom.

I've begun so late, really only in recent years, to truly love the world... Out of gratitude, I want to call my book on political theories Amor Mundi .

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it as a new thing into an old world.

People are often surprised by the fact that I laugh a lot, that I look like Lena Dunham, and that I don't want to make relationship dramas for the rest of my career.

Wisdom, Power and Goodness meet In the bounteous field of wheat.

The north! the north! from out the north What founts of light are breaking forth, And streaming up these evening skies, A glorious wonder to our eyes!

We have so much access to video and audio recording equipment that it's kind of the new pen and paper.

I think that you should just create if you have the urge to create. There's a lot of other careers you can pursue to seek attention. If people want validation, there are other ways to get that.

A pitcher is worth a thousand worts.

I'm excited about Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. It's the feast of a thousand senses, so just eat, eat, eat, eat.

Victoria Roberts spins an exciting Highland tale of intrigue, betrayal, and love with a braw Highland hero and strong English heroine any reader will love.

I watch my favorite shows-The Walking Dead, The Office, 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation-on Netflix to unwind. Actually, I eat most of my meals while watching Netflix. It's like my companion.

I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.

Repentance is not completed by a single act, it must be incorporated into our mind, till it become a fixed state, arising from a continual sense of our need of it.

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son towards a mother.

Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

Perfect purity, fullness of joy, everlasting freedom, perfect rest, health and fruition, complete security, substantial and eternal good.

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

Temptation does not make the sin, it lies ready in the heart.

If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree.

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

Anger is the common refuge of insignificance. People who feel their character to be slight, hope to give it weight by inflation: but the blown bladder at its fullest distention is still empty.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.