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From Quotes by Arthur Koestler
- Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.
- 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…
- 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…
- There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).
- 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…
- The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from…
- When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which…
- [My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.
- Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of…
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