Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture.
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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.Arthur Koestler
Nobody before the Pythagoreans 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.
Arthur Koestler
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
Arthur Koestler
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
Arthur Koestler
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.
Arthur Koestler
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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Charles Eliot Norton
The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.
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