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Means Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image…
- In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.
- Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
- We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through…
- To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
- From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?Â…Betrayal means breaking ranks…
- Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
- There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,…
- For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye…
- The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
- Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has…
- The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did…
- What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
- While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together…
- The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as…
More Means Quotes
- If someone is mad at you and you have no idea why, that means they are crazy. Or a girl. — Nikhil Saluja
- In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- Meditation means: remain as relaxed as you are in deep sleep and yet alert. Keep awareness there; let thoughts disappear but awareness… — Rajneesh