Hannah Arendt Quotes


A theology which is not based on revelation as a given reality but treats God as an idea would be as mad as a zoology which is no longer sure of the physical, tangible existence of animals.


Citations

Arendt, Hannah. Essays in Understanding, 1930-1954: Formation, Exile, and Totalitarianism. Edited by Jerome Kohn, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1994, p. 380.

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Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
  • Born: October 14, 1906
  • Died: December 4, 1975
  • Nationality: German, American
  • Profession: Historian

Hannah Arendt was a German-born American political theorist. Her many books and articles have had a lasting influence on political theory and philosophy. Arendt is widely considered one of the most important political thinkers of the 20th century.