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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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Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.
— Isaac Barrow
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When someone sets out to be controversial or provocative or shocking as an end in itself, I don't think that's a noble…
— Rob Bell
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Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I'm drawn to provocative characters that find themselves in extreme situations. And I think I'm drawn to that consistently.
— Kathryn Bigelow
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The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
— Aesop
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I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a…
— David Bowie
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
— Winston Churchill
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There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
— Woody Allen
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I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed…
— Dorothy Allison
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There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the…
— Theodor Adorno
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Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose…
— William O. Douglas
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