Arthur Koestler

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

— Arthur Koestler

All "if" statements about the past are as dubious as prophecies of the future are. It seems fairly plausible that if Alexander…

— Arthur Koestler

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring…

— Arthur Koestler

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— Arthur Koestler

Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of…

— Arthur Koestler

“In my youth I regarded the Universe as an open book, printed in the language of physical equations, whereas now it appears…

— Arthur Koestler

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…

— Arthur Koestler

The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and…

— Arthur Koestler

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

— Arthur Koestler

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

— Arthur Koestler

The 'gallows' are not only a symbol of death, but also a symbol of cruelty, terror and irreverence for life; the common…

— Arthur Koestler

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

— Arthur Koestler

One question that people always ask at home is never asked here: "What happened to Communism in Russia?" Everybody yawns when a…

— Arthur Koestler

The purposiveness of all vital processes, the strategy of the genes and the power of the exploratory drive in animal and man,…

— Arthur Koestler

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

— Arthur Koestler

It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in…

— Arthur Koestler

The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.

— Arthur Koestler

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

— Arthur Koestler

“Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.”

— Arthur Koestler

in the course of the last century science has become so dizzy with its successes, that it has forgotten to ask the…

— Arthur Koestler

...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…

— Arthur Koestler

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

“Our White - Whites were a mixed crowd,including a well - known doctor,owner of a chateau near Versailles,an opera singer with an…

— Arthur Koestler

“Persuasion may play a part in a man's conversion; but only the part of bringing to its full and conscious climax a…

— Arthur Koestler

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the…

— Arthur Koestler