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Us Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- 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…
- The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return.…
- The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not…
- 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…
- We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well…
- Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from…
- Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which…
- Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,…
- The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too, by Jove! -…
- I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,…
- Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever…
- You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals…
- 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…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle