More Quotes by Milan Kundera
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
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, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
