Arthur Koestler Quotes About Mankind

Quotes about: Mankind

• The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this temptation, from Spartacus to Danton and Dostoevsky; they are the classical form of betrayal of the cause. The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. As long as chaos dominates the world, God is an anachronism; and every compromise with one’s own conscience is perfidy. When the accursed inner voice speaks to you, hold your hands over your ears….

  Arthur Koestler

  Betrayal, Hands, Voice

• The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality.

  Arthur Koestler

  Self, Evil, Groups

• Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

  Arthur Koestler

  Death, Science, Men

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

• To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

  Arthur Koestler

  Pieces, Honest, Silver

  Arthur Koestler (1955). “Darkness at noon”

• The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

  Arthur Koestler

  Temptation, Satan, Dangerous

  Arthur Koestler (1955). “Darkness at noon”

• In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

  Arthur Koestler

  Creating, Brain, Evolution

• The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

  Arthur Koestler

  Mistake, Diagnosis, Evolution

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