Milan Kundera Quotes

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
Milan Kundera

Business, Two, Marketing

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kundera

Love, Woman, Her

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
Milan Kundera

Pain, Someone, Nothing

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera

Lazy, Enough, Poor

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Milan Kundera

Knowledge, Morality, Existence

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Milan Kundera

Pet, Jealousy, Evil

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
Milan Kundera

Truth, Mean, Means

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Milan Kundera

Wisdom, Stupidity, Everything

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
Milan Kundera

Change, Great, Movement

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
Milan Kundera

Words, Culture, Madness

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
Milan Kundera

Hate, Adversary, Tightly

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera

Respect, Attitude, True

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Milan Kundera

Human, Worth, Lies

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
Milan Kundera

May, Idea, While

I find myself fascinating.
Milan Kundera

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

Music, Played, Deaf

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
Milan Kundera

Great, True, Bisexual

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Milan Kundera

Human, Question, Situation

Happiness is the longing for repetition.
Milan Kundera

Happiness, Longing, Repetition

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.
Milan Kundera

Fear, Humility, Together

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera

Power, Struggle, Against

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
Milan Kundera

Power, Freedom, True

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Milan Kundera

Art, End, Human

How goodness heightens beauty!
Milan Kundera

Beauty, Goodness

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Milan Kundera

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Writer

Born: April 1, 1929

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