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.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
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 worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
