Joseph Conrad Quotes

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

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

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

All a man can betray is his conscience.