On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side you heard people crying: 'Look at the moon!' The moon had… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
I hear people everywhere saying that the trouble with our time is that we have no great leaders any more. If we look back we always had them. But to me it seems there is a very profound reason why… — 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 Image
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 Image
You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
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 Image
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
