2 Posts found for Author: Vaclav Havel

Keep the company of those who seek the truth – run from those who have found it.

Author: Vaclav Havel | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement

A sense of responsibility makes the individual and supplies the key to one individual’s understanding of another. To accept the idea of collective guilt and collective responsibility means consciously or involuntarily to diminish individual guilt and responsibility. […] Thinking of that sort is the imperceptible embryo of moral nihilism.

Author: Vaclav Havel | Subjects: Individuality, Responsibility