Arthur Koestler Quotes About Temptation

Quotes about: Temptation

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

  Arthur Koestler

  Temptation, Satan, Dangerous

  Arthur Koestler (1955). “Darkness at noon”

• ...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep.

  Arthur Koestler

  Sleep, Temptation, Defeated

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