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Quotes Tagged "idlesness"

And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?
— Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
Tags: truth, self-motivated, self-loathing, self-hate, pride, mankind, idlesness, humanity, human-condition, haunted, grace, fire, fear, fall, driven, ambitious-people, ambitious-minds, ambition
She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a transgression. And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?
— Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
Tags: truth, self-motivated, self-loathing, self-hate, pride, mankind, idlesness, humanity, human-condition, haunted, grace, fire, fear, fall, driven, ambitious-people, ambitious-minds, ambition
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