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Arthur Koestler Quotes

«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 been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction»
«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 short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.»
«The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums»
«Scientists are peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity»
«Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.»
«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 than in any other country in which I have lived»
«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 one, that the end justifies the means.»
«If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out»
Author: Arthur Koestler | About: Belief, God | Keywords: equipping
«We cannot unthink unless we are insane»
«The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.»
Author: Arthur Koestler | About: Creativity

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