Best Arthur Koestler Sayings
- In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. Acoustic
- To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de… Author
- History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience. Amoral
- To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind. Abandon
- Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation. Consequence
- I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes. Absolutes
- History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud… Bend
- Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation… Basic
- Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which Causal
- Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion;… Both
- There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew). Abundance
- Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. Closer
- We cannot unthink unless we are insane. Insane
- The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. Conquered
- 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 invisible… Age
- The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low… Aggressiveness
- From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness… Asserting
- Brain-washing starts in the cradle. Brain
- No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as… Antagonist
- The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies. Assertive
- The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause,… Aggression
- the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. Assertive
- man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning… Agreed
- The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer. Group
- Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the… Artificial
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