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Top 15 Laurens van der Post Quotes (2025 Update)

Laurens van der Post Quote: “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 my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.”

1. “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 my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.”

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you’ve never explored before, what human nature is like.”

2. “The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your own life and your own nature. You must really explore, as you’ve never explored before, what human nature is like.”

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.”

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

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.”

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

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.”

5. “Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.”

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.”

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

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “Creativity and love come from the same source.”

7. “Creativity and love come from the same source.”

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “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 the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.”

9. “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 the best mind, so much as an open heart and an open spirit.”

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.”

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

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “You may well be right, and disaster may well come, I had told him. But for me it will always be a point of honour to go on working to prevent disaster, if only to make certain it is the right kind of disaster life needs when it does ultimately come.”

11. “You may well be right, and disaster may well come, I had told him. But for me it will always be a point of honour to go on working to prevent disaster, if only to make certain it is the right kind of disaster life needs when it does ultimately come.”

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “Of all of men’s inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way.”

12. “Of all of men’s inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way.”

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one’s eternal peril.”

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

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “The only death the spirit recognizes is the denial of birth to that which strives to be born: those realities in ourselves that we have not allowed to live. The real ghost is a strange, persistent beggar at a narrow door asking to be born; asking, again and again, for admission at the gateway of our lives. Such ghosts I had, and thus, beyond all reason, I continued to be haunted.”

14. “The only death the spirit recognizes is the denial of birth to that which strives to be born: those realities in ourselves that we have not allowed to live. The real ghost is a strange, persistent beggar at a narrow door asking to be born; asking, again and again, for admission at the gateway of our lives. Such ghosts I had, and thus, beyond all reason, I continued to be haunted.”

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “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 you heard people crying: ‘Look at the moon!’ The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they’d never seen it.”

15. “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 you heard people crying: ‘Look at the moon!’ The moon had been there every minute of their lives and they’d never seen it.”

— Laurens van der Post

Laurens van der Post Quote: “Ninety percent of everything we know has been passed along through story.”

16. “Ninety percent of everything we know has been passed along through story.”

— Laurens van der Post

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