Form Quotes by Arthur Koestler

9 Form quotes by Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler’s nine remarks on form give a brief yet insightful look at how he viewed patterns and organization in ideas.

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Among all forms of mentation, verbal thinking is the most articulate, the most complex, and the most vulnerable to infectious diseases. It…

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The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through…

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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…

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Conscious and unconscious experiences do not belong to different compartments of the mind; they form a continuous scale of gradations, of degrees…

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When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas…

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The real achievement in discoveries... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before... The essence of discovery is that unlikely…

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Zen is to religion what a Japanese "rock garden" is to a garden. Zen knows no god, no afterlife, no good and…

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The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell…

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Of all forms of mental activity, the most difficult to induce even in the minds of the young, who may be presumed…

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

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The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes,…

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Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

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“Revolutionary theory had frozen to a dogmatic cult, with a simplified, easily graspable catechism, and with No. 1 as the high priest celebrating the Mass.”

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Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

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The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure…

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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in…

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