Joseph Conrad Quotes

Polish - Novelist December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

Great Blessed World Fog

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Life Sea Nothing More

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Alone Loneliness Memory Lonely

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

Nature Man Butterfly Never

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

Women Woman Men Difficult Task

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Alone Men Evil Belief

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Teacher Time Man Words

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Face Way Always Get

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Gossip Like Everybody Claims

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Sea Modern Make Ships

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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Art History Bird Song

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Path Human Being Human Him

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Man You Friends Judge

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Work Yourself Man Reality

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

Revolution Intelligent Noble Just

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

Others Away Beyond Our

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Look You Earth Too Much

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Life Love Heart Hope Trust

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Trust Power Always Argument

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Home Going Home Like Going

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

Passion Man Friends Political

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

Love Love Is Impossible Feelings

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Flower Garden Criticism Personal

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

Truth Face Body Joke

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

Work Strength Great Men

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Sea Man Never Human

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