“What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.”
More from Joseph Conrad on Philosophy
“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.”
“It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”
Others on Philosophy
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
T. S. Eliot
13 quotes“We have only to conquer Now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.Now is the triumph of the cross.”