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 s…

- Laurens Van Der Post

The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live m…

- Laurens Van Der Post

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

- Laurens Van Der Post

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…

- Laurens Van Der Post

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

- Laurens Van Der Post

On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and there was a blackout. On every side…

- Laurens Van Der Post

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 i…

- Laurens Van Der Post

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

- Laurens Van Der Post

That is the trouble, everybody is giving everything in the world a piece of their minds. Whereas what we want is not a piece of somebody's mind, even…

- Laurens Van Der Post