FastSaying

I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.

Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera

freedom-of-thoughtfriendshipkundera

Related Quotes

If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!
— Milan Kundera
creatores-muss-seinexcitement
Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
— Milan Kundera
flirtingmilan-kundera
Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind’s deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were beautiful, they would quickly be forgotten.
— Milan Kundera
dreamingmilan-kundera
Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
— Milan Kundera
lovemetaphorsmilan-kundera
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
— Milan Kundera
ingatankekuasaanlupa