Arthur Koestler

“Ivanov- "Up to now , all revolutions have been made by moralizing diletantes. They were always in good faith and perished because…

— Arthur Koestler

“What had he said to them? "I bow my knees before the country, before the masses, before the whole people...." And what…

— Arthur Koestler

In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…

— Arthur Koestler

“There was a dense fog in my brain,impenetrable to any coherent thought,except the dull obsession of counting the minutes - an aching…

— Arthur Koestler

Creative synthesis has a basic, bisociative pattern : the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills or matrices of thought.

— Arthur Koestler

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you…

— Arthur Koestler

We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

— Arthur Koestler

Honor is decency without vanity.

— Arthur Koestler

“Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.”

— Arthur Koestler

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

— Arthur Koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

— Arthur Koestler

God is dethroned; and although the incognizant masses are tardy in realizing the event, they feel the icy draught caused by that…

— Arthur Koestler

“We brought you truth, and in our mouth it sounded a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands…

— Arthur Koestler

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

— Arthur Koestler

“It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps…

— Arthur Koestler

Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

— Arthur Koestler

Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by…

— Arthur Koestler

Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit it is not noticed. For…

— Arthur Koestler

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

— Arthur Koestler

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

— Arthur Koestler

Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole,…

— Arthur Koestler

In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus,…

— Arthur Koestler

I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put…

— Arthur Koestler

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

— Arthur Koestler