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Honor is decency without vanity (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Two half truths do not make a truth (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. Murder within the species on an individual or collective scale is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man, and a few varieties of ants and rats (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm of the bisociation of previously separate contexts, engineered by fate. Coincidences are puns of destiny. In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot; in the coincidental happening, two strings of events are knitted together by invisible hands (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
The Revolutionary’s Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers’ blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist, can’t really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck? Of course not, Bohr replied, but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man’s deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man. (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
True creativity often starts where language ends (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
We cannot think unless we are insane (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Every error has it's consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
History is a "priori amoral"; it has no conscience (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers (Arthur Koestler Quotes)