| Author Quoted | Hannah Arendt |
| Title Quoted | Human Condition |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1960/06/12 |
| Imprint | Chicago : University of Chicago Press. c1958 |
| Quotation | Finished the Human Condition today. It is the deepest and most important defense of the contemplative life that has been written in modern times. That covers a great deal of ground! I have pages of notes, just brief references and page numbers, and I don't know how to start organizing all this material for my own use. I mean for real use: for it is not enough just to have been exposed to such a book and to absorb, as one naturally does, something of its language and attitudes so that at times one may "sound lik" that. |
| Quotation Source | Turning Toward the World: The Pivotal Years. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 4, 1960-1963.; Edited by Victor A. Kramer. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1996, p. 11 |
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