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His Own Quotes by Vaclav Havel
- 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…
- The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and…
- If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he…
- The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More His Own Quotes
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr