The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
~ Milan Kundera
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Author Archives: Louis Feuerbach
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Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promises only; pain we obey.
~ Marcel Proust
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Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
~ Hannah Arendt
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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
~ Confucius
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The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
~ Marcel Proust
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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.
~ Milan Kundera
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The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
~ Marcel Proust
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
~ Marcel Proust
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