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. Joseph Conrad

Great, Fog, Blessed, World, Warm, Rule

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, Words, Man, Animal, World

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, Will, Never, Mud

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

Life, Sea, Nothing, More, Than, Enticing

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, Wild

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. Joseph Conrad

Love, Love Is, Impossible, Feelings, Our

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

Alone, Loneliness, Memory, Lonely, Mask

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

Face, Way, Always, Through, Get, Facing

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

Path, Human, Him, Existence, Human Being

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. Joseph Conrad

Courage, Woman, Man, Want, Will, She

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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns. Joseph Conrad

Sea, Man, People, Climb, Dream, Born

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

Flower, Criticism, Garden, Personal

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. Joseph Conrad

Work, Strength, Great, Quality, Men

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, Capable, Quite

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

Beyond, Others, Normal, Order, Move, Our

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

Home, Going Home, Going, Must, Like

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

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

Women, Men, Woman, Difficult, Task

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

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

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

Truth, Face, Body, Joke, Caricature

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

Man, Judge, Friends, You, Well, Shall

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

Gossip, Like, Everybody, Claims

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

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

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

Strength, Wine, Out, Through, Indecent

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

Climb, Legal, Mankind, Upward, Those

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

Great, Words, Reality, Well, Known, Foes

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. Joseph Conrad

Revolution, Intelligent, Movement, Noble

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