Milan Kundera Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.”

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

“How goodness heightens beauty!”

“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”

“People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.”

“Optimism is the opium of the people.”

“The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.”

“Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.”

“No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.”

“Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.”