Arthur Koestler: Man

Arthur Koestler was Hungarian-British author and journalist. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations”

Arthur Koestler book Darkness at Noon

Source: Darkness at Noon

History

“The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.”

Arthur Koestler book The Ghost in the Machine

The Ghost in the Machine (1967).

“If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.”

Arthur Koestler book The Ghost in the Machine

The Ghost in the Machine (1967).

History , Affliction

“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