Milan Kundera Quotes

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

Milan Kundera

• Experienced
• Glances
• Blindfolded

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• You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Life
  • Important
  • Children

• I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • People
  • World
  • Food

• I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Myself

• All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • World
  • Nature
  • Ample

• All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again...and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.

  

  Wilt Chamberlain
  • Pain
  • Basketball
  • Scar

• We must remind our people that a great majority of Catholics including their own families were once themselves immigrants forced to endure the nativist bigotry of earlier generations who spoke about Catholics with the same disparaging vitriol being hurled at the new immigrants of now.

  

  Wilton Daniel Gregory
  • People
  • Catholic

• Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Remember
  • Fire
  • I Know

• The best love affairs are those we never had.

  

  Norman Lindsay
  • Love
  • Best
  • Affair

• I will dare to just do what I do. Be just what I am, and dance whenever I want to.

  

  Beverly Williams
  • Want
  • Dance

• If teleological study of the world is philosophy, and if the Law commands such a study, then the Law commands philosophy.

  

  Averroes
  • Law
  • Study
  • Philosophy

• People inspire me to write, the good ones and the bad ones.

  

  Amber Denise Streeter
  • People
  • Write
  • Inspire

• The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she had this thing that she believed in, that was so important that she would do it regardless of the player. And I think that a lot of players expected that she would bend herself to do whatever they wanted because they've done the romance, gotten her approval up, and of course she would just sort of follow their destiny. But Morrigan has her own destiny.

  

  David Gaider
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Player

• We're at the stage where some of our more experienced players are injured, some have already been rested, so it's a great opportunity to bring a bit of youth and enthusiasm into the squad.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Stage

• Tacitus has written an entire work on the manners of the Germans. This work is short, but it comes from the pen of Tacitus, who was always concise, because he saw everything at a glance.

  

  Tacitus
  • Work
  • Manners
  • Saws

• I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Girl
  • Tears
  • Jail

• The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Heart
  • Reality
  • Clouds

• We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later when the cloth is untied can we glance at the past and find out what we have experienced and what meaning it has.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Experienced
  • Glances
  • Blindfolded