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Arthur Koestler Quotes about History

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When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.

Arthur Koestler
Passion, Men, History

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
Mean, Breathing Space, History
Arthur Koestler (2015). “Darkness at Noon”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

Arthur Koestler
Dust, Woe Unto, History
ARTHUR KOESTLER (1941). “DARKNESS AT NOON”

If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

Arthur Koestler
Eye, Journey, History
"The Sleepwalkeers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe". Book by Arthur Koestler, 1959.

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