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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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Perhaps the most significant event in the evolution of the liberated mind arrives with the realization that most people, even in their…
— Unknown Author
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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.
— Alan Greenspan
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Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.
— Peabo Bryson
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The resurrection of Christ from the dead, next to the Crucifixion itself, is the most significant event in church history. It isn't…
— Greg Laurie
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Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides…
— Arthur Koestler
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A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory.…
— Stone Gossard
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From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth…
— George Matthew Adams
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The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into…
— George Matthew Adams
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