Best Quotes by Laurens van der Post (Top 7)

  1. Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
  2. In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.
  3. The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.
  4. Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.
  5. Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.
  6. 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.
  7. Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.