For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“We wander in our thousands over the face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond the seas our fame,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I remembered the old doctor, - "It would be interesting for science to watch the mental changes of individuals, on the spot."… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
