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Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Some of the greatest discoveries... consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why, post factum they appear so obvious (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
The addiction to the Soviet myth is as tenacious and difficult to cure as any other addiction (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocence; it prevents acclimatization and undermines one's morale (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
And there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self - deception (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
But who will be proved right? It will only be known later. Meanwhile he is bound to act on credit and sell his soul to the devil, in the hope of history's absolution (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Revolutionary theory had frozen to a dogmatic cult, with a simplified, easily graspable catechism, and with no. 1 as the high priest celebrating the mass (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring flows towards her goal. History knows her way. She makes no mistakes (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
There was a dense fog in my brain, impenetrable to any coherent thought, except the dull obsession of counting the minutes - an aching state of semi consciousness and numb idiocy (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one's fingers (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part - truth, treated as if it were a whole truth (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees of awareness (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Newton’s apple and Cezanne’s apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways (Arthur Koestler Quotes)
To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras (Arthur Koestler Quotes)