The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.

About Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (born Johanna Arendt; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German and American philosopher, political theorist, and public historian. She was one of the most influential political theorists of the twentieth century.

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

—Hannah Arendt

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

—Hannah Arendt

Equality… is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

—Hannah Arendt

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The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

—Hannah Arendt

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The insight that peace is the end of war, and that therefore a war is the preparation for peace, is at least as old as Aristotle, and the pretense that the aim of an armament race is to guard the peace is even older—namely, as old as the discovery of propaganda lies.

—Hannah Arendt

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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

—Jean Paul

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The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

—Sitting Bull

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The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

—Henry Morton Stanley

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They gave him a seashell: "So you'll learn to love the water." They opened a cage and let a bird go free: "So you'll learn to love the air." They gave him a geranium: "So you'll learn to love the earth." And they gave him a little bottle sealed up tight. "Don't ever, ever open it. So you'll learn to love mystery.

—Eduardo Galeano

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God is not a continent, like Antarctica, lying off somewhere, inert, without relation to human life till some Scott or Amundsen or Byrd finds him. God is not a mountain peak to which travelers must go and which they climb step by step. God is like the air we breathe or the earth beneath our feet. To discover God is simply to awaken to reality. It is like a plant discovering the sun and the rain that drew it from the earth or like children discovering the parents who gave them birth and love and nurture.

—Luther A. Weigle

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