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Quotes from The Ghost in the Machine — Arthur Koestler

1905–1983 Hungary

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

The Ghost in the Machine (1967)

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

The Ghost in the Machine (1967)

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

The Ghost in the Machine (1967)

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 (1967)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur Koestler (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.