Life Quotes by Arthur Koestler

8 Life quotes by Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler’s reflections on life are steeped in philosophical inquiry. In this brief set you’ll glimpse his thoughtful analysis of human nature and the complexities of existence.

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The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time…

Arthur Koestler

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In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,…

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The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which…

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The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common…

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Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of…

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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

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The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to…

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“We brought you truth, and in our mouth it sounded a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands…

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The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into…

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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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