Best Arthur Koestler Quotations
- The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from… Adult
- Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers,… Apparent
- in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the pertinent questions- or… Any
- The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo. Ape
- The integrative tendencies of the individual operate through the mechanisms of empathy, sympathy, projection, introjection, identification, worship- all of which make him feel that he… All
- When reality becomes unbearable, the mind must withdraw from it and create a world of artificial perfection. Plato's world of pure Ideas and Forms, which… Alone
- Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structuring of complex… Assemblies
- one of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. Appears
- The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood. Falsehood
- Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. Action
- The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. Carpe Diem
- Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. Death
- A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred… Ambition
- The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. Ancient
- The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. Acceptance
- The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. Beating
- 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;… Aim
- Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. Creativity
- I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river… Cities
- [My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. Distance
- History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations Counted
- The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common denominator of primitive… Common
- Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom… Apparatus
- True creativity often starts where language ends. Business
- Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race… Believe
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