Top 32 Jaroslav Quotes
#1. I think it's possible - perhaps even necessary - to find comedy in any war. I mean, look at the brilliant work which was done by Joseph Heller and Richard Hooker (M*A*S*H) and Jaroslav Hasek (The Good Soldier Svejk - which I haven't read, but have heard was funny).
Dave Abrams
#2. It is the ultimate game-changer. If the resurrection is true, then everything has changed. As Jaroslav Pelikan once said, 'If Jesus Christ rose from the dead, nothing else matters. If Jesus Christ did not rise from the dead, nothing else matters.
David Robertson
#4. Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent. Maul halten und weiter dienen ['Grin and bear it and get on with the job'] - as they used to tell us in the army. That's the best and finest thing of all.
Jaroslav Hasek
#5. Tradition is the living faith of dead people to which we must add our chapter while we have the gift of life. Traditionalism is the dead faith of living people who fear that if anything changes, the whole enterprise will crumble.
Jaroslav Pelikan
#6. When I was hungry
I fed almost daily
on the words of her songs.
Jaroslav Seifert
#7. I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another.
Jaroslav Hasek
#9. After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover.
Jaroslav Hasek
#10. Balance coolness, time to market and total cost of ownership. Really good technology can be adored by users of any age and remains adored even after many years in use.
Jaroslav Tulach
#11. Everything on earth has happened before,
nothing is new,
but woe to the lovers
who fail to discover a fresh blossom
in every future kiss.
Jaroslav Seifert
#12. Jesus Christ is too important to be left to the theologians.
Jaroslav Pelikan
#13. There was a war all over the world
and all over the world
was grief.
And yet I whispered into jewelled ears
verses of love.
It makes me feel ashamed.
But no, not really.
Jaroslav Seifert
#15. A lad changed to a shrub in spring,
the shrub into a shepherd boy,
A fine hair to a lyre string,
snow into snow on hair piled high.
Jaroslav Seifert
#16. If an ordinary person is silent, it may be a tactical maneuver. If a writer is silent, he is lying.
Jaroslav Seifert
#17. Sometimes I notice I'm demented, especially at sunset.
Jaroslav Hasek
#18. I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot.
Jaroslav Hasek
#21. The church is always more than a school. But the church cannot be less than a school.
Jaroslav Pelikan
#22. If Christ is risen, nothing else matters. And if Christ is not risen-nothing else matters.
Jaroslav Pelikan
#24. The greatness of a nation is in its symbols, its gestures, in doing things that are unprecedented. It's why the Americans are falling behind - they built a nation on the idea of doing new things, and now they'd rather sit and pray that the world won't make them adapt too much.
Jaroslav Kalfar
#25. I am sorry about your female partner. For what it is worth, the sociocultural rituals of your society seem to be in conflict with biological reality." I
Jaroslav Kalfar
#26. And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today.
Jaroslav Hasek
#27. But to cast my life away just like that
for nothing at all
that
I won't do.
Jaroslav Seifert
#28. In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don't have books written about them have it easier.
Jaroslav Kalfar
#29. An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative.
Jaroslav Pelikan
#30. Tradition is the living faith of the dead, traditionalism is the dead faith of the living. And, I suppose I should add, it is traditionalism that gives tradition such a bad name.
Jaroslav Pelikan
#31. This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless changes and has to appear once in this worlds as a thief in certain periods of his activity.
Jaroslav Hasek
#32. Preparations for the slaughter of mankind have always been made in the name of God or some supposed higher being which men have devised and created in their own imagination.
Jaroslav Hasek
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