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Men Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
- 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…
- The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the…
- The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,…
- Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
- The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
- 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'…
- we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to…
- it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such…
- 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 young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise.…
- People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.
- [Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of…
- Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his…
- So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.
- The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so…
- A man is responsible for his ignorance.
- There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to…
- Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.
- The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of…
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- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. — Aristotle
- Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare