Joseph Conrad Quotes

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Joseph Conrad

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

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Joseph Conrad

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

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

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

Joseph Conrad

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

Joseph Conrad

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

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

Joseph Conrad

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

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