Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.Hannah Arendt
The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene.
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It was as though in those last minutes he (Eichmann) was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil
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