Best Arthur Koestler Quotes
- History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes. Flow
- The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost. Believe
- The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation,… Accursed
- A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. Bar
- One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions. Brothel
- Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face. Empty
- I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into… Admire
- Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much… Arrange
- In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political… Any
- When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue… Aggression
- You can't help people being right for the wrong reasons...This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it… Bad
- The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever… Begins
- In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a… Able
- Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five Act
- Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. Accepted
- Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual… Academic
- In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean. Any
- The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience… Believer
- The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or… Act
- Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides the neatest paradigm… Acoustic
- One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up. Believe
- The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… Adaptation
- If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways. Corrupts
- Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed not to have… Accustomed
- Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust. Defeated
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