« All Existence Quotes · Milan Kundera's Page
Existence Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence
- There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel…
- Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
- Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.
- For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
- A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
- The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists'…
- Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are…
- The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.
- The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of…
- In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise,…
More Existence Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level… — Frederick Lenz
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Lao Tsu says the way of life is ancient, timeless. It is existence which he calls the Tao - a mysterious source,… — Frederick Lenz
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- The real master is only a presence. He has no intentions of being a master. His presence is his teaching. His love… — Rajneesh
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle