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Own Quotes by Arthur Koestler
- The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost.
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
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