Vaclav Havel Quotes

Vaclav Havel
Czechoslovakian Leader
Born: Oct 5, 1936
Always Hope Life Sense Will World
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Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel
Hope Will Sense Conviction Out Something Well Makes How Regardless Turn Turns Certainty
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy. Vaclav Havel
Life Struggle Law Universe Increase Constant More Structured Entropy Highly Just Against Ever Basic
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 sense, regardless of how it turns out. Vaclav Havel
Hope Will Same Thing Sense Conviction Definitely Out Something Well Makes How Optimism Same Regardless Turn Turns Certainty Thing
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
Life Hope Soil First Sense Doubt Birth Find Hopelessness Gives Could Never Absurdity New Perhaps Most Without Very Human Experiencing Certainties Moment Nourishes Profound
Lying can never save us from another lie. Vaclav Havel
Lie Lying Never Another Us Save
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. Vaclav Havel
Work Good Something Because Just Just Because Succeed Stands Chance
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
Success Work Hope Good Joy World Mind Sense State Enterprises Willingness Ability Something Rather Invest Heading Powerful Obviously Well Because Same Going Deep Things
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. Vaclav Havel
Life Man Own About Bothers He Him Knows His Tragedy Modern Modern Man Meaning Meaning Of Less
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete. Vaclav Havel
Truth Freedom Truth Is Complete Complete Freedom Given
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 military divisions. Vaclav Havel
Government Words Military System Entire Ten Structure Shaking Divisions Prove Than Where Which Capable Mightier Really Inhabit
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
Leadership World Power Worlds Everyone Thousands Determined More Small Both Divided Small Part Never Part Sharp Powerful Between Powerless Himself Because Exercise Line Interactions
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. Vaclav Havel
Experience Words Other More Absence Absurdity Sought In Other Words Meaning Deeper
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you. Vaclav Havel
Life Work Hope You World Feeling State Surrounds Regardless Either Meaning
None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. Vaclav Havel
Events Ways Spirit Slumber Know None Surprise Which Us Population Right
It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. Vaclav Havel
Nature You Age Experience Remember First Human Nature Laughs Kindly Lies Also Human Where Your
There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side. Vaclav Havel
Side About Something Winning Always Intellectual Suspect
I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself. Vaclav Havel
Important Think Distance Oneself Take Certain
What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. Vaclav Havel
Change Will Definitely Totalitarian Come Like Cuba Continue Exist Certain Eventually
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
Man World Lose Control Everything Considering Dimension Highest Soon Himself Source Began Human Meaning Measure
But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region. Vaclav Havel
Me Say Anchored Most Always Were His Influenced Central Region Kafka Then Who European Works

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