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Arthur Koestler Quotes

Arthur Koestler quotes

Hungarian Novelist September 5, 1905 – March 3, 1983

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...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Press, of opinion and of movement are as thoroughly exterminated as though the proclamation of the Rights of Man had never been. Arthur Koestler
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 strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned. Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler quote: "The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at..."
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. Arthur Koestler
that man is a reality, mankind an abstraction; that men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations; that the end justifies the means only within very narrow limits; that ethics is not a function of social utility, and charity not a petty bourgeois sentiment but the gravitational force which keeps civilization in its orbit. Arthur Koestler
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes. Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler quote: "Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler quote: "One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel..."
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions. Arthur Koestler
Our White - Whites were a mixed crowd, including a well - known doctor, owner of a chateau near Versailles, an opera singer with an enormous belly and a chaplainbass; a homosexual architect with a beard, two night club porters, and a lawyer who sold Jewish refugees visas for a Central American Republic, which on arrival turned out to be non valid. Arthur Koestler
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. Arthur Koestler
For in a struggle one must have both legs firmly planted on theearth. The Party had taught one how to do it. The infinite was apolitically suspect quantity, the `I' a suspect quality. The Party did notrecognize its existence. The definition of an individual was: a multitudeof one million divided by one million. Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler quote: "True creativity often starts where language ends."
True creativity often starts where language ends. Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler quote: "The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That..."
The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost. Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler quote: "The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's..."
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. Arthur Koestler
Some of the greatest discoveries... consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why, post factum they appear so obvious. Arthur Koestler
Only once did he remark when the starter, which he was trying to open, literally fell to pieces in his hands,:'If you would write for those filthy boulevard papers, monsieur, you could soon buy a Chevrolet'(which was quite unture: In France the prostitutes of the pen were just as badly rewarded as their colleagues on the street corners). Arthur Koestler

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