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Anyone who takes himself too ...

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Work for something because it...

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Hope is a state of mind, not ...

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

I think it's important for on...

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

The attempt to devote oneself...

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Isn't it the moment of most p...

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

The salvation of this human w...

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

There's always something susp...

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

When a truth is not given com...

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

There are times when we must ...

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

The exercise of power is dete...

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Modern man must descend the s...

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Without a global revolution i...

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness a more humane society will not emerge.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

It lies in human nature that ...

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

The previous regime ... reduc...

The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Someone who does not draw str...

Someone who does not draw strength from himself and who is incapable of finding the meaning of his life within himself will...seek the map to his own orientation somewhere outside himself-in some ideology, organization, or society, and then, however active he may appear to be, he is merely waiting, depending. He waits to see what others will do, or what roles they will assign to him, and he depends on them-and if they don't do anything or if they botch things, he succumbs to disillusion, despair, and ultimately, resignation.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

Genuine politics -- even poli...

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

I am not an optimist, because...

I am not an optimist, because I am not sure that everything ends well. Nor am I a pessimist, because I am not sure that everything ends badly. I just carry hope in my heart.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

This is a confusing and uncer...

This is a confusing and uncertain period, when a thousand wise words can go completely unnoticed, and one thoughtless word can provoke an utterly nonsensical furor.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

As soon as man began consider...

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

Vaclav Havel 212 quotes

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