Quote by Vaclav Havel
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less. – Vaclav Havel

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Whats certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cubas cant continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually. – Vaclav Havel

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning – in other words, of absurdity – the more energetically meaning is sought. – Vaclav Havel

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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. – Vaclav Havel

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Apathy is a sort of living oblivion. – Horace Greeley

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Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil. – I Ching

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We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all — the apathy of human beings. – Helen Keller

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Wherever there is degeneration and apathy, there also is sexual perversion, cold depravity, miscarriage, premature old age, grumbling youth, there is a decline in the arts, indifference to science, and injustice in all its forms. – Anton Chekhov

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