Arthur Koestler - Darkness at Noon (1940)

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

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Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view

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History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

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The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.

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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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The principle that the end justifies the means is and remains the only rule of political ethics; anything else is just a vague chatter and melts away between one's fingers.

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One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

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Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

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To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.

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The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

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