Truth, like time, is an idea arising from, and dependent upon, human intercourse. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Human talk is a centrifugal function, ever in flight outwards from what is on the talker's mind. — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The real difference between God and human beings is that God cannot stand continence. No sooner has he created a season of… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past as well,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
