Humans Quotes by Arthur Koestler

8 Humans quotes by Arthur Koestler

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Arthur Koestler’s intellectual rigor surfaces in these eight brief quotes. He probes paradoxes and contradictions, delivering a sharp, reflective view of human thought.

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The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans…

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Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.

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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…

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The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint.…

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Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of…

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Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general…

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The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

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The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this…

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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…

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The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes,…

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Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

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“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.”

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The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure…

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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in…

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