Small: The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood
"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, Novelist
Small: The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: Only in mens imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not inventi
"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, Novelist
Small: In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of ou
"In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: I dont like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself,
"I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of s
"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, Novelist
Small: Dont you forget whats divine in the Russian soul and thats resignation
"Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway
"A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness
"The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a m
"I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters
"Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: As to honor - you know - its a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasnt theirs
"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: Racism is mans gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
Small: God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance
Abraham Joshua Heschel
"God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance"
Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator
Small: Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the l
"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it but man will never on his heap of
"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, Novelist
Small: An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a
"An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: A mans most open actions have a secret side to them
"A man's most open actions have a secret side to them"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind
"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends
"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this ear
"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull
"It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line
"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves i
"Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous ex
"To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the cele
"For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth
"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: You cant, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty
"You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, whi
"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, Novelist
Small: There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea
"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar easy, pleasan
"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, t
"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, Novelist
Small: As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices a
"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"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: A mans real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love
"A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utt
"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: Facing it, always facing it, thats the way to get through. Face it
"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space
"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space"
Joseph Conrad, Novelist
Small: To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mer
"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, Novelist