You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
“We may not be able to stop and undo the hard old wrongs of the great world outside, but through you and me no… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
“As the natural coherence of the world vanishes, there's a guilt that grows great and angry in the basement of our beings.” — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
“It's the not-yet in the now, the taste of the fruit that does not-yet exist, hanging the blossom on the bough.” — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.” — Laurens van der Post Copy Share
