If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

Quote by Vaclav Havel

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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and...

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and...

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 salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in...

The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in...

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...

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand...

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand...

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting that...

Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have - by disrupting 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...

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...

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often,...

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often,...

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

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...

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the...

As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or...

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or...

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...