Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract'… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
