Milan Kundera

Happiness is the longing for repetition…

Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of…

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation…

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at…

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness…

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the…

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they’re going…

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge…

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent…

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom…

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that…

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be…

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as…

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or…

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only…