If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.
Vaclav HavelHope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.
Vaclav HavelModern science kills God and takes his place on the vacant throne. Science is the sole legitimate arbiter of all relavent truth.
Vaclav HavelEnglish is the 'language of liberty' for nations emerging from years of cultural oppression.
Vaclav HavelMan is a part of the world, and his spirit is part of the spirit of the world. We are merely a peculiar mode of Being, a living atom within it, or, rather, a cell that, if sufficiently open to itself and its own mystery, can also experience the mystery, the will, the pain, and the hope of the world.
Vaclav Havel