"Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly……" — Milan Kundera
"Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another."
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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera has 381 quotes on this site.
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to…
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink…
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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void…
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they…
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the…
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
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We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our…
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to…
— Georg Brandes
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Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not…
— Epictetus
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If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not…
— Seneca the Younger
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To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
— Emile M. Cioran
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... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs…
— Christer Kihlman
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There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which…
— Edmond de Goncourt
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I am still at Trattenbach, surrounded, as ever, by odiousness and baseness. I know that human beings on the average…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a…
— George Gissing
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I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the…
— Mark Twain
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Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused…
— John Walford
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There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
— Jules de Goncourt
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Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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