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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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I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had…
— Igor Stravinsky
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It was my 16th birthday-my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song,…
— Stevie Nicks
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The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very…
— Clive Barker
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In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism,…
— Arthur Koestler
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I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,…
— Lebbeus Woods
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If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain?
— Ralph Ellison
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When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.
— Isaac Mizrahi
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To me Art's subject is the human clay, / And landscape but a background to a torso; / All Cezanne's apples I…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.
— Pablo Picasso
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It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote…
— Stevie Nicks
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I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out…
— John Berryman
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