Arthur Koestler: Likeness

Arthur Koestler was Hungarian-British author and journalist. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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“Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit — it is not noticed.”

Arthur Koestler

A Challenge to 'Knights in Rusty Armor, The New York Times, (14 February 1943).
Context: Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit — it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.

“The sixth pre-Christian century—the miraculous century of Buddha, Confucius and Lâo-Tse, of the Ionian philosophers and Pythagoras—was a turning point for the human species. A March breeze seemed to blow across the planet from China to Samos, stirring man into awareness, like the breath of Adam's nostrils. In the Ionian school of philosophy, rational thought was emerging from the mythological dream-world. …which, within the next two thousand years, would transform the species more radically than the previous two hundred thousand had done.”

Arthur Koestler

The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (1959)

World , School , Dreams

“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.”

Arthur Koestler

Crossman (1949), p. 68.

Men , Mathematics

“The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.”

Arthur Koestler book The Ghost in the Machine

The Ghost in the Machine (1967, 1976).

Life , Science