Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. - Milan Kundera 1 Share Now -
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. - Milan Kundera 2 Share Now -
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. - Milan Kundera 3 Share Now -
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. - Milan Kundera 4 Share Now -
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. - Milan Kundera 5 Share Now -
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. - Milan Kundera 6 Share Now -
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. - Milan Kundera 7 Share Now -
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. - Milan Kundera 8 Share Now -
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace. - Milan Kundera 9 Share Now -
