Joyce Cary Quote

We have to have conceptual knowledge to organize our societies, to save our own lives, to lay down general ends for conduct, to engage in any activity at all, but that knowledge, like the walls we put up to keep out the weather, shuts out the real world and the sky. It is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it.


Art and Reality (1958)


We have to have conceptual knowledge to organize our societies, to save our own lives, to lay down general ends for conduct, to engage in any...

We have to have conceptual knowledge to organize our societies, to save our own lives, to lay down general ends for conduct, to engage in any...

We have to have conceptual knowledge to organize our societies, to save our own lives, to lay down general ends for conduct, to engage in any...

We have to have conceptual knowledge to organize our societies, to save our own lives, to lay down general ends for conduct, to engage in any...