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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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He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both eyes.
— Molly Ivins
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
— Mary McCarthy
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Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
— Arthur Koestler
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The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is…
— Arthur Miller
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Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are…
— Edgar Degas
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Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and…
— Benjamin Percy
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You've got to get out of the car, take the keys around, open up the trunk lid, hand the keys to the…
— Paris Reidhead
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Read. It makes you more intelligent. It’s that simple. We all see the universe through the tiny keyhole of our own eyes,…
— Ethan Hawke
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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. Spicy court-memoirs, the lives of gallant ladies, recollections of an ex-nun,…
— Mary McCarthy
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I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
— Judy Garland
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What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
— Billy Sunday
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