Joseph Conrad quotes and words of wisdom

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

"A droll thing life is?that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself and that comes too late."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary, men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
Found in the topic Supernatural.

"Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists pricipally of dealing with men."
Found in the topic Man.

"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
Found in the topic Ambition.

"You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
Found in the topic Endure.

"God is for men and religion is for women."
Found in the topic Religion.

"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please."
Found in the topic Rest.

"Don"t talk to me of your Archimedes" lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world."
Found in the topic Mathematics.

"The mind of man is capable of anything?because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
Found in the topic Capable.

"All a man can betray is his conscience."
Found in the topic Betrayal.

"I can"t imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me."
Found in the topic Quarrels.

Interesting Quotes

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine.J.B.S. Haldane

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken