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Humans Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
- A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects…
- 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…
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
- The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.
- For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
- No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
- True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
- The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
- 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'…
- You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
- A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you…
- And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is…
- The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good…
- The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become
- The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day,…
- It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life…
- This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only…
More Humans Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt