Disposition Quote by Laurens van der Post

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

Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

— Laurens van der Post

You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.

— Laurens van der Post

Creativity and love come from the same source.

— Laurens van der Post

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

— Laurens van der Post

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“As the natural coherence of the world vanishes, there's a guilt that grows great and angry in the basement of our beings.”

— Laurens van der Post