Joseph Conrad Quotes

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

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

Alone, Men, Evil, Belief, Source, Every

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

Great, Blessed, World, Warm, Fog, Who

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

Life, Sea, Nothing, More, Than, Enticing

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

Life, Love, Hope, Heart, Trust, Man

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

Man, Friends, Judge, You, Well, His

Going home must be like going to render an account. Joseph Conrad

Home, Going Home, Like, Going, Must

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

Face, Way, Through, Always, Get, Facing

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

Women, Woman, Men, Task, Difficult

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. Joseph Conrad

Teacher, Time, Man, Animal, Words, World

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Joseph Conrad

Climb, Legal, Mankind, Except, Which

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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. Joseph Conrad

Life, Dreams, Fear, Dream, Just, Perhaps

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. Joseph Conrad

Strength, Wine, Through, Out, Maudlin

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. Joseph Conrad

Man, Open, Secret, Actions, Side, Most

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. Joseph Conrad

Power, Trust, Argument, Sound, Right

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. Joseph Conrad

Loneliness, Alone, Memory, Lonely, Mask

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

Others, Beyond, Away, Move, Normal, Our

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

Truth, Face, Body, Joke, Caricature

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

Gossip, Like, Everybody, Claims

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. Joseph Conrad

Nature, Butterfly, Man, Never, Will, Mud

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. Joseph Conrad

Work, Man, Yourself, Chance, Reality

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. Joseph Conrad

Great, Words, Reality, Well, Known, Foes

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. Joseph Conrad

Life, Strength, Nature, Faith, Man, Land

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. Joseph Conrad

Man, Friends, Bond, Moral, Country, Talk

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. Joseph Conrad

History, Art, Bird, World, Song, Special

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. Joseph Conrad

Courage, Power, Truth, Sea, Generosity

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. Joseph Conrad

Look, Earth, You, Too Much, Pretty, Away

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