128 ordspråk av Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad föddes den December 3rd 1857 och dog den 3 August 1924 - Polish-Ukrai writer
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every wickedness

Belief

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.

The future is of our own making - and the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development

Future

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future

Mind

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind

Crime

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.

The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.

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