5 Joseph Conrad Quotes on Psychology

Joseph Conrad quotes on psychology

36. Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

39. Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralyzing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a man struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

40. There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

64. 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.

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