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British writer (born in Hungary) who wrote a novel exposing the Stalinist purges during the 1930s (1905-1983)

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When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.

– Arthur Koestler

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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

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God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

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If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.

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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.

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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

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Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.

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Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

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The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

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