Thoughts and Philosophies
A visual interpretation

Hannah Arendt 

                                                    70x50 cm 2022 Oil on canvas            

11. Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.



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12. Terror becomes total when it becomes independent of all opposition; it rules supreme when nobody any longer stands in its way. 



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13. The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.



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



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15. Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.



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 16. The best of all will be those who know only one thing for certain that whatever else happens, as long as we live we shall have to live together with ourselves.  



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


 

41x33 cm 2022 Oil on canvas

18. The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.



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



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20. Action, with all its uncertainties, is like an ever-present reminder that men, though they must die, are not born in order to die, but to begin something new.