Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ” — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Man is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Ultimately, power only really listens to power, and if government is to be improved, we must be able to threaten its existence,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Life cannot be destroyed for good, neithercan history be brought entirely to a halt. A secret streamlet trickles on beneath the heavy… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The hope of the world lies in the rehabilitation of the living human being, not just the body but also the soul. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
There appear to be no integrating forces, no unified meaning, no true inner understanding of phenomena in our experience of the world.… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
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,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
“For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.” — Václav Havel Copy Share Image
Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
If by believing you mean praying to an anthropomorphic deity who created the world and half controls it and half observes it, then I… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Our country, if that is what we want, can now permanently radiate love, understanding, the power of the spirit and of ideas. It is… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
A person who has been seduced by the consumer value system, whose identity is dissolved in an amalgam of the accouterments trappings of mass… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
