"men in the plural, that is, men in so far as they live and move and act in this world, can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and to themselves"
"It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from fetters of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which freedom would deserve to be won."
'plurality is the condition of human action because we are all the same, that is, human, in such a way that nobody is ever the same as anyone else who ever lived, lives, or will live.'
"the presence of others who see what we see and hear assures us of the reality of the world and ourselves, and while the intimacy of a full developed private life...will always greatly intensify and enrich the whole scale of subjective emotions and private feelings, this intensification will always come to pass at the expense of the assurance of the reality of the world and men."
"There are relevant matters which can survive only in the realm of the private. For instance, love, in distinction from friendship, is killed, or rather extinguished, the moment it is displayed in public.'[never seek to tell thy love/love that never told can be.]
"without this transcendence into a potential earthly immortality ,no politics, strictly speaking, no common world and no public realm, is possible. "
"through many ages before us-but now not any more-men entered the public realm because they wanted something of their own or something they had in common with others to be more permanent than their earthly lives."
"there is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in modern age....than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity."
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