Defeated Quote by Arthur Koestler Download Open image “Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.” — Arthur Koestler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defeated Dust History Woe Woe unto
“The very word 'history' conjured a dull success of thrones and murderous clerical wrangling.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“But it is part of our intellectual arrogance that we confront world history, especially in modern times, in much the same spirit that the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“For some, history is a drab and dusty subject; for me it is a powerful stimulant, arousing our passions about past injustices and infusing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren’t there,… — Kapka Kassabova Copy Share Image
“To THOSE who want to lift this nation from the dungheap of history, the past does not matter — only the present, the awareness… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
“The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“History is full of people who out of fear or ignorance or the lust for power have destroyed treasures of immeasurable value which truly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Nowadays our sense of history is being destroyed by the nature of our history - our memory is short and it grows shorter under… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a… — Anonymous 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
Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The devil has been defeated, stop trying to defeat him. What we have left is the fight of faith, and it's a good fight! — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as… — Kenneth Clarke Copy Share Image
You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest… — Flower A. Newhouse Copy Share Image
Azerbaijan unleashed the war, and was defeated in that war; Azerbaijan asked for truce (including from the Commander of Karabakh's forces) and later started… — Serzh Sargsyan Copy Share Image
You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America followed the brutal Highland clearances. These included every layer of Scottish… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
