What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost Paradise, of a legendary Golden Age... All utopias are fed from the source of mythology; the social engineers' blueprints are merely revised editions of the ancient text.

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler

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.

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.