Václav Havel Quotes

10 quotes

Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)

“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out."

on Faith

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

on Inspirational

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

on Inspirational

"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."

on Philosophy

"Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you."

on Hope

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

on Freedom

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

on Life

"Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning."

on Hope

"For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system."

on Philosophy