Hannah Arendt is brilliant!

So I'm getting ready to write my essay on "Between Past and Future" and I'm going through all my highlighted quotes and making sure I didn't miss anything. I came across this quote:

"The trouble is that if the mind is unable to bring peace and to induce reconciliation, it finds itself immediately engages in its own kind of warfare."

I would never have been able to put words together in this sequence to make such an ingenious statement; but it's so true. Anyone who has to ponder about the consequences of a decision always goes through either the reconciliation or warfare Arendt speaks of. If we find our decisions to be positive, we have a sense of reconciliation where we are at peace with ourselves. However, if we find our decisions to be negative, we beat ourselves up about it and we don't let it rest for a period of time until another decision is needed to be made.

Even if you don't have to write the essay, and you were planning on just going to class without reading this.. I seriously discourage that. This piece is moving. Read it, you'll know what I'm talking about when you finish.

~kd