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Hannah Arendt quotes on thinking

4 verified English passages where Hannah Arendt’ s thought meets questions of thinking.

Hannah Arendt on thinking

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) approaches thinking within political theory. She distinguished labor, work, and action, and argued that political freedom arises in shared speech and initiative. Systematically, the teaching links totalitarianism, action, judgment into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets thinking most directly—useful for searches such as “hannah arendt quotes on thinking.”

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What did Hannah Arendt say about thinking?

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  1. Thinking is the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention.
    Q0096
    The Life of the Mind (on thinking)
  2. The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
    Q0278
    The Life of the Mind
  3. the banality of evil
    Q0354
    Eichmann in Jerusalem
  4. What I propose… is nothing more than to think what we are doing.