Quotes from Sir Laurens van der Post

Man is everywhere dangerously unaware of himself. We really know nothing about the nature of man, and unless we hurry to get to know ourselves we are in dangerous trouble.

The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.