Laurens van der Post Quotes
- 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 and…
- The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your…
- Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
- There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a…
- We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.
- 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…
- Creativity and love come from the same source.
- In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act…
- Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way.
- The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is…
- The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.
- Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
- Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
- Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.