Hannah Arendt enjoyed her solitude, but she believed that loneliness could make people susceptible to totalitarianism

ideological thinking insists upon a ‘truer reality’, that is concealed behind the world of perceptible things.

Loneliness arises when thought is divorced from reality, when the common world has been replaced by the tyranny of coercive logical demands.

And when one submits to the self-compulsion of ideological thinking, one surrenders one’s inner freedom to think.