Truth Quotes by Milan Kundera

Speak truth to power.

— Milan Kundera

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

— Milan Kundera

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

— Milan Kundera

In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.

— Milan Kundera

The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.

— Milan Kundera

“Don't lie!' 'Tell the truth!' are words which we must never say to another person in so far as we consider him…

— Milan Kundera

What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not…

— Milan Kundera

“In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to…

— Milan Kundera

“A novel is purposely a-philosophic, even anti-philosophic, fiercely independent of any system of preconceived ideas, it questions, it marvels, it doesn't judge,…

— Milan Kundera

Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence…

— Milan Kundera

“Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: the…

— Milan Kundera

“It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. (...) The "Tell the truth!"…

— Milan Kundera

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect,…

— Milan Kundera

“ I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a…

— Milan Kundera

Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does…

— Milan Kundera

“I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one question to yourself:…

— Milan Kundera

“ I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a…

— Milan Kundera

Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The…

— Milan Kundera

“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in…

— Milan Kundera

“Why in fact should one tell the truth? What obliges us to do it? And why do we consider telling the truth…

— Milan Kundera

“Man cannot do without feelings, but the moment they are considered values in themselves, criteria of truth, justifications for kinds of behavior,…

— Milan Kundera

“The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is…

— Milan Kundera

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone…

— Milan Kundera