Vaclav Havel Famous Quotes
"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."
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 one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity...
"Human beings are compelled to live within a lie, but they can be compelled to do so only because they are in fact capable of living in this way. Therefore not only does the system alienate humanity, but at the same time alienated humanity supports this system as its own involuntary masterplan, as a degenerate image of its own degeneration, as a record of people's own failure as individuals."
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
"Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it."
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.
"Society is a complex and mysterious creation and . it's extremely imprudent to believe in the fact it presents you with at a given moment, let alone to consider it the one and only true face."
"The truth is not simply what you think it is it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why and how it is said."
Vaclav Havel Quotations
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
"No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will."
Thomas Jefferson
"I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
Mark Twain
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittaiin
The course of true anything does not run smooth.
Samuel Butler
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
Abraham Lincoln
This is one of those views which are so absolutely absurd that only very learned men could possibly adopt them.
Bertrand Russell
"There are moments when everything goes well don't be frightened, it won't last."
Jules Renard
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know it judges us by what we have.
Joyce Brothers
"The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum."
Frances Willard