Quote of Milan Kundera - A novel that does not uncover...
Biography - Milan Kundera:
Czech-born French writer.
Born: 1929
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: Czech Republic
Born: 1929
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: Czech Republic
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
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Quotes about existence:
The universe confounds me! I cannot imagine that such a ‘clock’ can exist without there being a Clockmaker.
There are moments in life when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence immeasurably increased.
Quotes for: morality
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Quotes for: knowledge
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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