The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.
Václav HavelThe truth is not simply what you think it is; it is also the circumstances in which it is said, and to whom, why, and how it is said.
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Keep the company of those who seek the truth- run from those who have found it
Václav HavelAll human suffering concerns each human being
Václav HavelHope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
Václav HavelTags: life
You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.
Václav HavelAt one time, the state of culture in Czechoslovakia was described, rather poignantly, as a 'Biafra of the spirit'. . . I simply do not believe that we have all lain down and died. I see far more than graves and tombstones around me. I see evidence of this in . . . expensive books on astronomy printed in a hundred thousand copies (they would hardly find that many readers in the USA) . . .
Václav HavelThe 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.
Václav HavelThere is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.
Václav HavelThere's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.
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