World Quotes by Arthur Koestler

8 World quotes by Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler’s intellectual vigor appears in this concise batch, where eight statements probe the world’s paradoxes. It’s a succinct but stimulating glimpse into his analytical mind.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas…

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Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world…

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I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening…

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One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

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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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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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