Vaclav Havel Quotes

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.

In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.

There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.

I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little about which one can be certain.

Certainty in politics is never a given.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

In conlusion, there is no conclusion. Things will go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

I see the world in very fluid, contradictory, emerging, interconnected terms, and with that kind of circuitry I just don't feel the need to say what is going to happen or will not happen.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties.

I guess I crave stability.

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.

Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical.

I don't know what the future holds. Anything is possible.

I don't know the future.

Literally, I don't know where life is gonna go from one day to the next, and that's as exciting as it is tiring.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.