What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. -Joseph Conrad

 

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.


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

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It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

Joseph Conrad

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

Joseph Conrad

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Joseph Conrad