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Only Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity…
- The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind…
- For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in…
- I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
- Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible…
- Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
- Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in…
- They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident…
- There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on…
- It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
- It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share…
- I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful…
- I don't like work - no man does - but I like what's in the work: the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -…
- Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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