More Quotes by Milan Kundera
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 past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
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 possessed with peace is always smiling.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
