1888-1957, British Author
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.
Joyce Cary – [Change]
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 – [Freedom]
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 – [Miracles]
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
Joyce Cary – [Death and Dying]
Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul — politics does the same thing for the body.
Joyce Cary – [Politicians and Politics]
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 – [Free Will]