Arthur Koestler Quotes

For the movement was without scruples; she rolled towards her goal unconcernedly and deposed the cor...

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appea...

Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The...

It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half...

Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

I don't approve of mixing ideologies," Ivanov continued. "There are only two conceptions of human et...

Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same ...

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-trut...

When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probab...

... on the historical scale, the damages wrought by individual violence for selfish motives are insi...

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.'No, I didn’t. Communism ditched me by turning into ...

Ivanov- "Up to now , all revolutions have been made by moralizing diletantes. They were always in go...

A shapeless figure bent over him, he smelt the fresh leather of the revolver belt; but what insignia...

The old disease, thought Rubashov. Revolutionaries should not think through other people's minds. Or...

Rubashov had always believed that he knew himself rather well. Being without moral prejudices, he ha...

Satan, on the contrary, is thin, ascetic and a fanatical devotee of logic. He reads Machiavelli, Ign...

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History know...

...The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom of the Pre...

Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears.

God seems to have the receiver off the hook.

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing m...

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of disca...

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat...

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it’s absolute unfreedom.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points t...

Wars are not fought for territory but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susce...