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. -Joseph Conrad Truth
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. -Joseph Conrad Hope
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -Joseph Conrad Men
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. -Joseph Conrad Trust
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends. -Joseph Conrad Truth
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. -Joseph Conrad Art
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. -Joseph Conrad Nature
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. -Joseph Conrad Women
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. -Joseph Conrad Art
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. -Joseph Conrad Legal
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. -Joseph Conrad Space
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. -Joseph Conrad Men
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? -Joseph Conrad Fear
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -Joseph Conrad Alone
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. -Joseph Conrad Teacher
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. -Joseph Conrad Trust
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. -Joseph Conrad Great
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. -Joseph Conrad Power
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. -Joseph Conrad Imagination
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. -Joseph Conrad Courage
