4 Arthur Koestler Quotes on History

Arthur Koestler quotes on history

7. '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' (The Ghost in the Machine)

10. 'The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.'

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

24. '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.'