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Life Quotes by Vaclav Havel
- The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
- The law is only one of several imperfect and more or less external ways of defending what is better in life against what is worse.…
- Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by dignity.
- I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that…
- Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps…
- Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
- You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
- 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 Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle