Quotes
Authors
Arthur Koestler

"The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion."

-- Arthur Koestler

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“A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.”

Source : Joan Slonczewski (2000). “A Door Into Ocean”, p.30, Macmillan
“Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.”
“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and prisons. A person can spend his whole life between four walls. If he doesn't think or feel that he's a prisoner, then he's not a prisoner. But then there are people for whom the whole planet is a prison, who see the infinite expanse of the universe, the millions of stars and galaxies that remain forever inaccessible to them. And that awareness makes them the greatest prisoners of time and space.”
“No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved ones. The last thing we should ever do is to add to a family's pain.”
“...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well.”
“The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silverâ€™s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and leaves you feeling so free youâ€™ll want to do cartwheels on the beach. But donâ€™t be fooled by the simplicity of this message. Look no further for an easeful path to enlightenment infused with rapture and hope, which comes as much needed medicine for the soul.”
“I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of the nineteenth-century science on philosophical questions are once again in the melting-pot.”

Source : James Jeans, Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1981). “Physics and Philosophy”, p.216, Courier Corporation

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