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“The fermenta cognitionis which Lessing scattered into the world were not intended to communicate conclusions, but to stimulate others to independent thought, and this for no other purpose than to bring about a discourse between thinkers.”
― Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

“We can no more master the past than we can undo it. But we can reconcile ourselves to it. The form for this is the lament, which arises out of all recollection.”
― Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

“The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk.”
― Hannah Arendt, Responsibility and Judgment

“But even non-tragic plots become genuine events only when they are experienced a second time in the form of suffering by memory operating retrospectively and perceptively.”
― Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times