David Goldman

“To anticipate, and put it in a nutshell: The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The”
― Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind: The Groundbreaking Investigation on How We Think

“Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

“You may be thinking that a bag is just a thing in which to put other things. And you’re right, of course. But that’s what makes them so extraordinary. A bag has no intentions or desires of its own, it embraces every object that we ask it to hold. You trust the bag, and it, in return, trusts you. To me, a bag is patience; a bag is profound discretion.”
― Yōko Ogawa, Revenge

“Only the existence of a public realm and the world’s subsequent transformation into a community of things which gathers men together and relates them to each other depends entirely on permanence. If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition