Arthur Koestler Quotes about Society

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in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case

in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or refused to ask them under the pretext that they are meaningless, and in any case not the scientists concern.

Arthur Koestler

Pertinent Questions, Society, Lasts

The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.

Arthur Koestler

Society, Adults, Groups

Arthur Koestler (1964). “The Act of Creation”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

Arthur Koestler

Society, Groups, Killers

Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.

Arthur Koestler

Self, Society, Tests

Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex systems into sub-assemblies, there could be no order and stability- except the order of a dead universe filled with a uniformly distributed gas.

Arthur Koestler

Simple, Order, Society