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.

Quote by Vaclav Havel

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Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without...

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without...

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only...

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only...

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the...

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the...

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political...

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political...

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who...

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who...

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to...

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to...

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population,...

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population,...

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect.

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps...

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps...

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire...

I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire...

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that...

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that...

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who...

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who...

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am...

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am...

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so...

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so...

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps...

Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps...

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity...

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity...

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that...

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that...

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the...

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the...