Milan Kundera Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the view­point of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.

  Milan Kundera

  Views, Evil, Judging

  "Testaments Betrayed". Book by Milan Kundera, 1995.

• A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

  Milan Kundera

  Doe, Ethics, Morality

  New York Review of Books, July 19, 1984.

• But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, People, Doe

• Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

  Milan Kundera

  Morality, Judgment, Novel

  "Testaments Betrayed". Book by Milan Kundera, 1995.

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