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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 still blind him…

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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…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
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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Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will… — Arthur Koestler
Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative. — Joseph Furphy
I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to… — Kyle MacLachlan
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. — Brand Blanshard
Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride. — Agatha Christie
A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello. — Tim Roth
I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood… — David Oyelowo
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime. — Ted Lange
Othello' was my first Shakespearean discovery. I was obsessed with drama at school, and I studied the play for my English GCSE.… — Michelle Dockery
Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article." --Othello, Act III, Scene iii — William Shakespeare
There are no preconditions for jealousy. You don't have to be right, you don't have to be reasonable. Take Othello. He was… — Franny Billingsley
With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare… — Paul Robeson

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