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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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Nine! The Navy Diver is not a fighting man, he is a salvage expert. Ten! If it is lost underwater, he finds…
— Billy Sunday
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Ive been a swimmer and a diver for quite a while. It was something that I think I got too comfortable with,…
— Brooke Burns
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I think being a competitive diver for years helps you focus and dedicate yourself to what's needed.
— Jason Statham
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The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary…
— Jean Paul
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I'm a combat diver, I've never done something like this.
— Joe Teti
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Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One,…
— Robert Browning
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Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a…
— Nicholas G. Carr
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I always tell myself, 'Keep on fighting.' I wasn't always a good diver—I had to work my way up to where I…
— Unknown Author
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The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of…
— Arthur Koestler
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Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
— Saadi
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How could you reach the pearl by only looking at the sea? If you seek the pearl, be a diver: the diver…
— Rumi
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