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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 33 quotes by Vaclav Havel Václav Havel (Czech pronunciation: [ˈvaːt slav ˈɦavɛl] ( listen); 5 October 1936 – 18 December 2011) was a Czech writer, philosopher, dissident, and statesman. From 1989 to 1992, he served as the first democratically elected president of Czechoslovakia in 41 years. He then served as the first president of the Czech Republic (1993–2003) after the Czech-Slovak split. Within Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and... Read full biography of Vaclav Havel → 1 2 3 Ctrl → Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes... → 0 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;... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. 0 Lying can never save us from another lie. 0 Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. 0 Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not. 0 Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life. 0 I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten... → 0 The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. 0 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... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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