“You ask about
the effect of my work on others. If I may wax ironical, that is a masculine
question. Men always want to be terribly influential, but I see that as
somewhat external. Do I imagine myself to be influential? No. I want to
understand. And if others understand –in the same sense that I have understood—that
gives me a sense of satisfaction, like feeling at home”
Hannah Arendt, Essays in Understanding (1994), p. 3.
