Czechoslovakia
Quotes & Thinkers from Czechoslovakia
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"It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them."
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Tom Stoppard
Literature
1937–2025
"The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists."
70 quotes
Václav Havel
Literature
1920–1979
"Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning."
110 quotes
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Politics
1850–1937
"Jesus, not Cæsar, I repeat,—this is the meaning of our history and democracy."
5 quotes
Jaroslav Hašek
Military
1883–1923
1 quotes
Franz Bardon
alternative medicine
1909–1958
"Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale."
22 quotes
Jaroslav Kvapil
Literature
1868–1950
"The program of our nation is given by its history and by its racial individuality, by its modern political life and by its rights and by all that which gave rise to these rights and solemnly guaranteed them."
4 quotes
Karel Zeman
Economics
1910–1989
"With the vast sweep of his imagination Jules Verne created a whole world of magical things imbued with a delightful naiveté, which just charm us..."
6 quotes
Leoš Janáček
Music
1854–1928
1 quotes
Julius Fučík (journalist)
Journalism
1903–1943
"Humans, I have loved you all. Be vigilant!"
2 quotes
Notable Quotes
"The Declaration of Independence states that the Creator gave man the right to liberty. It seems man can realize that liberty only if he does not forget the One who endowed him with it."
— Václav Havel, b. 1920View →
"Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning."
— Václav Havel, b. 1920View →
"True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?"
— Václav Havel, b. 1920View →
"A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clearsighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action."
— Václav Havel, b. 1920View →
"It also happens, rather often, that politicians do not actually talk to each other but only to one another's shadows as they appear in the media."
— Václav Havel, b. 1920View →