The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“In my youth I regarded the Universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations, whereas now it appears… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The Party denied the free will of the individual - and at the same time it exacted his willing self-sacrifice. It denied… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The revolutions of thought which shape the basic outlook of an age are not disseminated through text-books- they spread like epidemics, through contamination by… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“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.” — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
