“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
More from Joseph Conrad on Philosophy
“What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.”
“The mind of man is capable of anything.”
“The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future.”
“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
“A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.”
“Principles? Principles won’t do. Acquisitions, clothes, pretty rags—rags that would fly off at the first good shake. No; you want a deliberate belief.”
“Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.”
“No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”
“The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it all the past as well as all the future.”
“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”