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From Quotes by Vaclav Havel
- We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought.
- If every day a man takes orders in silence from an incompetent superior, if every day he solemnly performs ritual acts which he privately finds…
- A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human.…
- I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.
- Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the…
- Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.
- There is only one art, whose sole criterion is the power, the authenticity, the revelatory insight, the courage and suggestiveness with which it seeks its…
- My dear fellow citizens: For forty years you have heard from my predecessors on this day different variations of the same theme: how our country…
- People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it.
- Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it
- The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from…
- Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to…
- Lying can never save us from another lie.
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