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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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In 2004, I wrote 'What We've Lost,' a book about the Bush administration. It sold only reasonably well, in part, I think,…
— Graydon Carter
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The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate.
— Alain Vigneault
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In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other…
— Khalil Gibran
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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
— Eric Hoffer
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If people depend on me to be a man of truth, I have to prove again and again and again and again…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Aristotle discovered all the half-truths which were necessary to the creation of science.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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He [said of one or other eminent colleagues] is a very busy man, and half of what he publishes is true, but…
— Erwin Chargaff
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Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.
— Langston Hughes
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A half truth is the worst of all lies,because it can be defended in partiality.
— Solon
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Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off…
— Thomas Jefferson
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