"People derived too much pleasure from seeing their……" — Milan Kundera
"People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation."
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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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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all…
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I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least…
— David Brainerd
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from…
— Edmund Burke
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
— Luc de Clapiers
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Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001…
— Tom Allen
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In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise…
— Bruce Alberts
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America does not seem to remember that it derived its wealth, its values, its food, much of its medicine, and…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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It is impossible to talk of respect for students for the dignity that is in the process of coming to…
— Paulo Freire
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It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
— Michelangelo
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
— Henry Fielding
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My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain.…
— Lewis Carroll
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