Milan Kundera on Philosophy
Browse 4 quotations attributed to Milan Kundera, catalogued under Philosophy, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Milan Kundera, entry #37583: "Review. The Unbearable Lightness of Being April 2, 1984 New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-25"
Attributed to Milan Kundera, entry #175790: "Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable."
4 Quotes by Milan Kundera on Philosophy
"Review. The Unbearable Lightness of Being April 2, 1984 New York Times. Retrieved 2010-09-25"
"Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable."
"The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish."
"The fact that until recently the word “shit” appeared in print as s— has nothing to do with moral considerations. You can’t claim that shit is immoral, after all! The objection to shit is a metaphysical one. The daily defecation session is daily proof of the unacceptability of Creation. … The aesthetic ideal of the categorical agreement with being is a world in which shit is denied and everyone acts as though it did not exist. This aesthetic ideal is called kitsch. … Kitsch is the absolute denial of shit, in both the literal and the figurative senses of the word; kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence."