Vaclav Havel Quotes About Humility

Quotes about: Humility

• As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.

  Vaclav Havel

  Humility, Men, World

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

• The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.

  Vaclav Havel

  Humility, Compassion, Depth

  1990 Speech, 1 Jan.

• Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.

  Vaclav Havel

  Humility, Men, Thinking

  "Rio and the New Millennium" by Vaclav Havel, www.nytimes.com. June 3, 1992.

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