Vaclav Havel

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.

There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side.

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.