More Quotes by Milan Kundera
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.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
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.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
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.
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
