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Arthur Koestler has 111 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
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There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
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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 jealousy will…
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If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
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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. The catastrophe…
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The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
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The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
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In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
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No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…
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Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of…
— William Stanley Jevons
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Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than…
— G. H. Hardy
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She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her…
— Kate Chopin
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When I used to go to the Manhattan Chess Club back in the fifties, I met a lot of old-timers there who…
— Bobby Fischer
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When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
— Arthur Koestler
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For me, Chess is life and every game is like a new life. Every chess player gets to live many lives in…
— Unknown Author
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Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images, ideas, emotion…
— Alfred Binet
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A strong memory, concentration, imagination, and a strong will is required to become a great Chess player
— Bobby Fischer
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Mistrust is the most necessary characteristic of the Chess player
— Siegbert Tarrasch
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Whoever sees no other aim in the game than that of giving checkmate to one's opponent will never become a good Chess…
— Max Euwe
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The enormous mental resilience, without which no Chess player can exist, was so much taken up by Chess that he could never…
— Albert Einstein
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There's never before been a Chess player with such a thorough knowledge of the intricacies of the game and such an absolutely…
— Lisa Lane
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