Explore the most impactful and insightful quotes and sayings by Sarah Bakewell, and enrich your perspective with the wisdom. Share these inspiring Sarah Bakewell quotes pictures with your friends on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, completely free. Here are the top 9 Sarah Bakewell quotes for you to read and share.
for Arendt, if you do not respond adequately when the times demand it, you show a lack of imagination and attention that is as dangerous as deliberately committing an abuse. -- Sarah Bakewell
As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.] -- Sarah Bakewell
Seneca put it, life does not pause to remind you that it is running out. -- Sarah Bakewell
Seneca did this too: Place before your mind's eye the vast spread of time's abyss, and consider the universe; and then contrast our so-called human life with infinity. -- Sarah Bakewell
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) -- Sarah Bakewell
Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so. -- Sarah Bakewell
You should make your choices as though you were choosing on behalf of the whole of humanity, -- Sarah Bakewell
Each man is a good education to himself, provided he has the capacity to spy on himself from close up. -- Sarah Bakewell
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom', -- Sarah Bakewell