More Quotes by Milan Kundera
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
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 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.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
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.
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.
