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> [It cannot suffice to invent new machines, new regulations, new institutions. It is necessary to change and improve our understanding of the true purpose of what we are and what we do in the world. Only such a new understanding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/it-cannot-suffice-to-invent-new-machines-new-regulations-new/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

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> [It is not enough to invent new machines, new regulations, or new institutions. We must understand differently and more perfectly the true purpose of our existence on this earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/it-is-not-enough-to-invent-new-machines-new-regulations-or-new/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

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## More by Vaclav Havel

> [I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/i-am-convinced-that-we-will-never-build-a-democratic-state-based-on/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/people-who-live-in-the-post-totalitarian-system-know-only-too-well/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [“For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/for-by-this-very-fact-individuals-confirm-the-system-fulfill-the/)

[Václav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/hope-is-not-a-feeling-of-certainty-that-everything-ends-well-hope-is/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/this-is-a-confusing-and-uncertain-period-when-a-thousand-wise-words/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/if-by-believing-you-mean-praying-to-an-anthropomorphic-deity-who/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/human-beings-are-compelled-to-live-within-a-lie-but-they-can-be/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/our-country-if-that-is-what-we-want-can-now-permanently-radiate-love/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/i-cannot-imagine-that-i-could-strive-for-something-if-i-did-not-carry/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [People, your Government has returned to you!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/people-your-government-has-returned-to-you/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/a-person-who-has-been-seduced-by-the-consumer-value-system-whose/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/whether-all-is-really-lost-or-not-depends-entirely-on-whether-or-not/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [Sober perseverance is more effective than enthusiastic emotions, which are all too capable of being transferred, with little difficulty, to something different each day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/sober-perseverance-is-more-effective-than-enthusiastic-emotions-which/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/the-exercise-of-power-is-determined-by-thousands-of-interactions/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

> [It's not true that you should first think up an idea for a better world and only then "put it into practice," but, rather,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vaclav-havel/it-s-not-true-that-you-should-first-think-up-an-idea-for-a-better/)

[Vaclav Havel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vaclav-havel/)

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