More Quotes by Milan Kundera
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.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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 stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
