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One Quotes by Arthur Koestler
- There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
- As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the…
- The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is that unlikely marriage…
- Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old…
- If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he…
- The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo…
- The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
- The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and…
- 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,…
- One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.
- 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…
- In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.
- 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.
- one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.
- A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred…
- Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too;…
- I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river…
- If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has…
More One Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle