If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“I think most historians would agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“That was probably the reason that history was more of an oracle than a science. Perhaps later, muck later, it would be… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“... on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insignificant compared to the holocausts resulting from… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“But who will be proved right? It will only be known later. Meanwhile he is bound to act on credit and sell… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
