Hannah Arendt

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

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.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We're creating our own definition and saying, 'We are intelligent!'