Hannah Arendt, interview with Roger Errera (October 1973), broadcast on Un Certain Regard (6 July 1974), ORTF TV, France. Published as "The Last Interview" in the Hannah Arendt Newsletter #2 (December 1999) and Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (Brooklyn: Melvin House, 2013).
• Widely paraphrased as "There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."
• Widely paraphrased as "There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."
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There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise.
— Hannah Arendt on Thought
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "There are no dangerous thoughts for the simple reason that thinking itself is such a dangerous enterprise." in the context of "Hannah Arendt, interview with Roger Errera (October 1973), broadcast on Un Certain Regard (6 July 1974), ORTF TV, France. Published as "The Last Interview" in the Hannah Arendt Newsletter #2 (December 1999) and Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations (Brooklyn: Melvin House, 2013).
• Widely paraphrased as "There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous."" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American political theorist whose work deals with the nature of power, authority, and totalitarianism.
About Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a German-American political theorist whose work deals with the nature of power, authority, and totalitarianism.
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