Hannah Arendt Quotes:
Ocupation: Philosopher
Life: October 14, 1906 - December 4, 1975
Birthday: October 14
Death: December 4
There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive.
source: Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.108, University of Chicago Press
topic: Lasting Happiness, Boredom, Balance
