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Vaclav Havel Quotes
«Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
conviction, regardless, sense, turn, turns, turn out
«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.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Hope
| Keywords:
enterprises, heading, heads of state, head of state, invest, obviously, state of mind, The State of the World, willingness
«Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
guardians, in fact, suicides, The Guardian, The Meaning of Life
«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...»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Certainty,
Doubt,
Hope,
Life
| Keywords:
absurdity, certainties, experiencing, first moment, given birth, hopelessness, nourishes, perhaps, profound, sense experience, soil, soiled, soiling, soils
«Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| About:
Laughter,
Seriousness
| Keywords:
consistently, laugh at, ridiculous, runs, seriously
«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.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
come after, deep-rooted, devote, expressed, genuine, roots, serving, whole name
«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.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
bothers, modern, modern man, of his own, tragedy
«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.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
Human heart, meekness, nowhere, reflect, salvation
«The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning -- in other words, of absurdity --the more energetically meaning is sought.»
Author: Vaclav Havel
(Playwright, President)
| Keywords:
absurdity, deeper, energetically, in other words, sought