Vaclav Havel

It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#also #experience #first #human #human nature

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#interplay #know #none #population #potentialities

Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#instructions #questions #search #theater #you

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#broad #daylight #descend #just #misery

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

— Vaclav Havel

#always #intellectual #side #something #suspect

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#change #come #continue #cuba #definitely

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

— Vaclav Havel

#complete freedom #freedom #given #truth #truth is

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#conviction #definitely #hope #how #makes

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

— Vaclav Havel

#chance #good #just #just because #something