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.
Joseph Conrad Quotes
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
All a man can betray is his conscience.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
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.
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
