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Laurens van der Post Quotes: Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.
         

Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.


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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.



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Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.



We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.

We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.



Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.



The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.

The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.



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Creativity and love come from the same source.



You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.

You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.



Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.



There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . . a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.



[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.





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