Joseph Conrad Quotes - Free Daily Quotes

" I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. "

" All a man can betray is his conscience. "

" We live, as we dream, alone "

" All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. "

" Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows. "

" The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. "

" Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. "

" Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. "

" The conquest of the earth… is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only… not a sentimental pretence but an idea. "

" They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything. "

" We live as we dream – alone. "

" But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. "

" The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. "

" What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. "

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Free Daily Quotes

" I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. "

" All a man can betray is his conscience. "

" We live, as we dream, alone "

" All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. "

" The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. "

" Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. "

" Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. "

" The conquest of the earth… is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only… not a sentimental pretence but an idea. "

" They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything. "

" We live as we dream – alone. "

" But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. "

" The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. "

" What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. "