Karel Capek Quotes

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• If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people.

  Karel Capek

  Funny, Dog, People

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• Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want to save mankind. And that isn't right, your Reverence. The world will be an evil place as long as people don't believe in other people.

  Karel Capek

  Believe, Men, Long

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• A short life is better for mankind, for a long life would deprive man of his optimism.

  Karel Capek

  Short Life, Men, Long

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• The sole perfection which modern civilization attains is a mechanical one; machines are splendid and flawless, but the life which serves them or is served by them, is neither superb nor brilliant, nor more perfect nor more graceful; nor is the work of the machines perfect; only they, the machines, are like gods.

  Karel Capek

  Civilization, Perfect, Machines

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• Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Stranger

  Karel Capek (2004). “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”, p.89, Penguin

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• Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.

  Karel Capek

  Soul, Robots, Literature

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance.

  Karel Capek

  People, Needs, Literature

  "The Absolute at Large". Book by Karel Capek, 1922.

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• It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs your roots: then you will understand that you are here only through a miracle, and you will remain fixed forever in wonderment and equilibrium.

  Karel Capek

  Roots, Waiting, Miracle

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• One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

  Karel Capek

  People, Principles, Literature

  "Letters from England". Book by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• While we only look at Nature it is fair to say that Autumn is the end of the year; but it is still more true that Autumn is the beginning of the year.... Autumn is the time when in fact the leaves bud. Leaves wither because winter begins; but they also wither because spring is already beginning, because new buds are being made, as tiny as percussion caps out of which the spring will crack.... It is only an optical illusion that my flowers die in autumn; for in reality they are born.

  Karel Capek

  Spring, Flower, Autumn

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• Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

  Karel Capek

  Cat, Humans, Knows

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• All the year round there is spring, all through life is youth; there is always something which may flower.

  Karel Capek

  Spring, Flower, Years

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• Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

  Karel Capek

  Triumph, Literature, Might

  "Karel Čapek: Life and Work". Book by Ivan Klima, 2002.

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• Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.

  Karel Capek

  Stress, Yellow, People

  Karel Capek's supplement to his book "R.U.R" in "The Saturday Review", 1923.

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• There are several ways to lay out a little garden; the best way is to get a gardener.

  Karel Capek

  Garden, Littles, Way

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• A guy wanted the vet to cut his dog's tail off. The vet asked why. Well, my mother in law is visiting next month and I want to eliminate any possible indication that she is welcome.

  Karel Capek

  Mother, Dog, Humor

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• My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

  Karel Capek

  People, Perfect, Missing

  Karel Capek (2004). “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”, p.28, Penguin

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• Art must not serve might.

  Karel Capek

  Art, Might

  Karel Capek's statement to S. K. Neumann, as quoted in Ivan Klima "Karel Capek: Life and Work", 2002.

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• I find that a real gardener is not a man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil. He is a creature who digs himself into the earth and leaves the sight of what is on it to us gaping good-for-nothings. He lives buried in the ground. He builds his monument in a heap of compost. If he came into the Garden of Eden, he would sniff excitedly and say: "Good Lord, what humus!"

  Karel Capek

  Real, Flower, Men

  Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”

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• Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.

  Karel Capek

  Men, Race, Robots

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done.

  Karel Capek

  Moving, People, Done

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• You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.

  Karel Capek

  Spring, Fall, Autumn

  Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”

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• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  Karel Capek

  Government, Office, Literature

  "The Absolute at Large". Book by Karel Capek, 1922.

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• Among human beings, a cat is merely a cat; among cats, a cat is a prowling shadow in a jungle.

  Karel Capek

  Cat, Shadow, Prowling

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• Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

  Karel Capek

  Eugenics, Wages, Answers

  "On Relativism" by Karel Capek, 1925.

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