"In the pun, two strings of thought are……" — Arthur Koestler
"In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot."
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110 Quotes by Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler has 110 quotes on this site.
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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei,…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to…
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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his…
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If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to…
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe.…
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of…
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution…
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic…
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a…
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No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether…
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More Acoustic Quotes
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I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids.
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I've made three studio albums and one live one with my brother. It's melodic singer-songwriter acoustic-rock music.
— Kevin Bacon
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Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and…
— Lester Bangs
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In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just…
— Travis Barker
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I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.
— Eric Clapton
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I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year.…
— Eric Clapton
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I've always been fond of acoustic music.
— Ian Anderson
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk…
— Ian Anderson
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Since Pawlow [Pavlov] and his pupils have succeeded in causing the secretion of saliva in the dog by means of…
— Jacques Loeb
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Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit…
— Andy Gibb
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There are tons of people in the West who love fiddles, banjos and mandolins. If you got to any cowboy…
— Michael Martin Murphey
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