Karel Capek Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Cat, Shadow, Prowling

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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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• 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.

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  Government, Office, Literature

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

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• Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

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  Real, Passion, Heart

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

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• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

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  Stars, Flames, Hands

  "R.U.R". Book by Karel Capek, January 25, 1921.

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• You never realize a dog is a man's best friend until you start betting on horses.

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  Dog, Horse, Humor

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• The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

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  Sports, Honesty, Silence

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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.

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  Eugenics, Wages, Answers

  "On Relativism" by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• Dumb dog. I bought a dog whistle. He won't use it.

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  Dog, Humor, Dumb

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• Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.

  Karel Capek

  Inheritance, Literature, England

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• Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees...

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  Order, Voice, Passionate

  "On Relativism" by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.

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  Men, Machines, Enough

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• We´re two, two for everything, for love, life, for a fight and pain, for hours of happiness. Two for wins and losses, for life and for death - TWO!

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  Pain, Love Life, Loss

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• Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it.

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  Fighting, Literature, Cognition

  "On Relativism" by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

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  Flower, Butterfly, Dark

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

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• I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up.

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  Claims, Theft, Forbidden

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• The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody can beam and warble while chewing pressed beef smeared with diabolical mustard. Nobody can exult aloud while ungluing from his teeth a quivering tapioca pudding.

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  Average, Cooking, Insulting

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• As is well known, all collectors are prepared to steal or murder if it is a question of getting another piece for their collection; but this does not lower their moral character in the least.

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  Character, Doe, Pieces

  Karel Capek, M. Weatherall, R. Weatherall (1996). “War with the Newts”, p.166, Northwestern University Press

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• I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

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  Dog, Garden, Two

  Karel Capek (2004). “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”, p.94, Penguin

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• Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans and dry land, must be corrected. We shall give the world the workforce of the sea, gentlemen. This will no longer be the style of Captain van Toch; we shall replace the adventure story of pearls by the hymnic paean of labour.

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  Ocean, Adventure, Land

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• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

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  Fighting, Creating, Literature

  "On Relativism". Book by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

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  Victory, Literature, Ants

  "'And so ad infinitum (The Life of the Insects) : An Entomological Review in Three Acts, a Prologue and an Epilogue " by Karel Capek, Josef Capek, (p. 60), 1936.

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