Best Vaclav Havel Quotations
- As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to… Began
- The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so… All
- The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him… Bother
- There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of… Bottom
- Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible… Absurdity
- I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten… Anti War
- Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that… Artistic
- The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human… Heart
- But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European… Anchored
- The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. Absence
- Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever… Basic
- Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that order - a way of surprising. Assumes
- The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. Alone
- I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect. Inspirational
- In my opinion, theater shouldn't give advice to citizens. Advice
- It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. Age
- There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. Always Something
- What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. Certain
- If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a… Artist
- Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political… Act
- None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise… All
- Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the… Among
- The truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and… Circumstances
- Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it Company
- Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning. Certainty
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