The will is never free — it is always attached to an object, a purpose. It is simply the engine in the car — it can’t steer.
—Joyce Cary
Topics: Freedom
For me, the principal fact of life is the free mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity. A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
—Joyce Cary
Topics: Change, Freedom
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body.
—Joyce Cary
Topics: Politics, Politicians
God is a character, a real and consistent being, or He is nothing. If God did a miracle He would deny His own nature and the universe would simply blow up, vanish, become nothing.
—Joyce Cary
Topics: Miracles
Love doesn’t grow on trees like apples in Eden – it’s something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
—Joyce Cary
A novel points out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.
—Joyce Cary
Topics: Books, Reading
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
—Joyce Cary
Topics: Age, Aging, Architecture
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