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But just as haste and restlessness are typical of our present-day life, so change also takes place more rapidly than before. This applies to change in the relationships between nations as it does to change within an individual nation. Gustav Stresemann

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. Gustav Stresemann

Thought Heritage Our Background Dante Would Would-Be Only Both Part Divorced Unthinkable Within Context Understood Italian Cultural German Common

Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered. Gustav Stresemann

War Lost Nothing State See More Colonization Individuals Participation Most Territories Frequently Overlook Still Loss Historians End Germany Than Often Meaning Serious Suffered Assets

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick. Gustav Stresemann

Time History Man Own Too Evolution Only Individual Ready Yardstick His Different Whereas Measure Uses Unit

I must begin by saying something about the old Germany. That Germany, too, suffered from superficial judgment, because appearances and reality were not always kept apart in people's minds. Gustav Stresemann

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. Gustav Stresemann

No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state. Gustav Stresemann

Class Change Balance Determination Political Responsibility State General Sharing Excluded Parties Alter Political Parties Contributing Should

Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. Gustav Stresemann

Great History Generation Events Matter Nation Nothing Way Could Mislead Course Reporting Represent Happened Younger Younger Generation Such A Way Appear

Nothing is more misleading to the youth of a nation than to state the outcome immediately after the beginning as if nothing could have taken place in between. Gustav Stresemann

Youth Nation Beginning Nothing State Immediately Outcome More Could Taken Misleading Between Than After In-Between Place

This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism. Gustav Stresemann

Conflict Socialism People Old Nothing Progressive Given Could Had Ideas Partly Alternative Germany Successful Serve Defeated

Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance. Hannah Arendt

Power Opposites Own Other Rules Absent Absolutely Disappearance Course Left Ends Where Appears Jeopardy Violence

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it. Hannah Arendt

Happiness Men Sense Living Well Arrive Ultimate Ultimate End End Human Different Which Means Chosen Acts Desire

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. Hannah Arendt

Life Entertainment Culture People World Relates Objects Phenomenon

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. Hannah Arendt

Good Girl Few Horse Shaped Well

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. Hannah Arendt

You Know Disgusting Fifties

It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. Hannah Arendt

The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution. Hannah Arendt

Matter Become Revolution Reputation International Relations Relations Uncertain More Instrument Dubious Affairs Domestic Gained Appeal International Specifically Violence

Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx. Hannah Arendt

Political Thought Beginning Believe Our Definite Marx Had Aristotle Came Tradition End Karl Karl Marx Theories Teachings Less Plato

I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old. Hans-Georg Gadamer

Old Books Only Over Read Years Basically

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said. Hans-Georg Gadamer

Language Taken Said Real Hear Up Being Which

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