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51 Czech Quotes

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

You carry Childhood Never Become older
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

Healthy attitude Contagious Wait A carrier
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Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally, I won't be corrupted. I'll sit there in my Rolls, uncorrupted, and tell my chauffeur, uncorruptedly, where to go.

Success Metaphysical experience Bigger scale
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It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea of a just society.

Light matter Jeopardy Single life Underpin
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Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.

Theater Story telling Feel entitled Playwright
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Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbor, your village and beyond.

Give Life Your children Last biscuit
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All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Your life Truth Permanent blur Being ambushed
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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Better Know Useless things Nothing
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For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clear to an eight-year-old child. A child knows what is fair and isn't fair, and justice derives from that knowledge.

Human right Simply endorse Life Moral value
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I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

I'm hopeless Looking Into myself See
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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Maturity High price Pay Growing up
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It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

The voting Democracy The counting
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We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Give advice The bucket Take it The grain
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My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers

Whole life Waiting for The questions Prepared answers
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I was so thrilled being a reporter, because it gave you the kind of access to people that you wouldn't ever get to meet.
So thrilled Reported Access To people
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Time is short, life is short, there's a lot to know. So I skip the entertainers in the newspaper now. I just haven't got time.

Time Short The entertainers Newspaper
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What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveillance?

The society To protect Complete surveillance Commonwealth
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

From principles Probability Truth Obtained
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Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.

Life Gamble Terrible odds
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If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

You associate Older people Do enjoy Their lives
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The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

The bad End unhappily Good unluckily Tragedy means
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If enough things that are untrue are said about you, no one will know what really is true.

Enough things Untrue About you Will know
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It's better to be quotable than to be honest.

Better Quotable Be honest
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The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say

The truth Compound Half truths Never reach
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What is best in music is not to be found in the notes.

Best Music Found Notes
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With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

Coming Spring Calm
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I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Crazy Young Passions Moment
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In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

Music Chamber Listened Audience
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Fortunately, something always remains to be harvested. So let us not be idle.

Fortunately Something Harvested Idle
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It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

Strange Feels Foward First
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All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.

All Perfect Detail Perish
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Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Tradition Worship Ashes Fire
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A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

Symphony World Contain Everything
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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Composer Say Words Music
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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause

Point World Life Failure
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The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
Spiritual Experiences Future Life
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The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

Love Sounds Immobile Rocks
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When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Summit Great Reluctance Reach
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Man lives in greatest pain

Man Lives Greatest Pain
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You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.

Renounce Convention Vanity Delusion
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I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

Beg Assume Pose Disguise
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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi.

Live Learn Feel Men
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The real art of conducting consists in transitions

Real Art Conducting Transitions
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Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

Melodic Invention Signs Divine gift
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Discipline, work. Work, discipline.
Discipline Work
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It should be one's sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.

One's Endeavour Afresh Anew
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The spirit can assert itself only through the medium of clear form.

Spirit Assert Medium Clear form
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Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

Never GuidedOpinions One's way
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The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Music Develops Composer Thoughts
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I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

Hitting Against Walls Giving way
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