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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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That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed…
— Timothy Garton Ash
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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
— Abu Bakr
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Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting…
— Bono
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I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the…
— Elayne Boosler
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In every grave on earth's green sward is a tiny seed of the resurrection life of Jesus Christ, and that seed cannot…
— Unknown Author
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We can safely make one prophecy: whatever the outcome of this war, the British Empire is at an end. It has been…
— Adolf Hitler
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Woe to the suicides! I believe that there can be none more miserable than they. Oh, there are some who remain proud…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.
— Plautus
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It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about…
— Pat Robertson
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