"The Manticore" Quotes
"The Manticore" follows the journey of a troubled man as he undergoes Jungian analysis and attempts to unravel the mysteries of his past.
fiction | 304 pages | Published in 2006
Quotes
The world is full of people who are willing to tell you that there is no such thing as love, and even if there is, it is not worth having.
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
It is a very great thing to have a proper pride in one's own life, and so far as possible to live it without compromise.
People are always more willing to believe what they want to believe than what they should believe.
The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
It is a mistake to think that we have to be good, only that we have to be better than we are.
The man who says that he is no good at all is often the man who is best at something.
The mad are a race apart; they have their own ideas, and their own ways, and they do not care what the world thinks of them.
The best way to manage people is to leave them alone; the next best is to tell them to do what has to be done, and the worst is to stand over them and tell them how to do it.
Each person's fate is no one else's business.
