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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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How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ...…
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America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each…
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Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body…
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Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very…
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How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's…
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It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that…
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He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it…
— Unknown Author
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The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a…
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The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.
— James Salter
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After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a…
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