92 Quotations by Joseph Conrad
- 41. I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not a ...
- 42. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
- 43. It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
- 44. It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, wa ...
- 45. It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
- 46. It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them o ...
- 47. It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, s ...
- 48. It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, ...
- 49. It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts ...
- 50. Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the s ...
- 51. No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge ...
- 52. No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge ...
- 53. Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, ...
- 54. Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
- 55. Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, i ...
- 56. Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for the ...
- 57. Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for the ...
- 58. Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
- 59. The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every w ...
- 60. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different com ...
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