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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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It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there…
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A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists…
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from…
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You look at my audience, and it proves what Congress thinks America is, is wrong. I get people across the political spectrum.…
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Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors - that certainly changed my whole palate, the…
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There are people who believe in expanding the welfare state across the spectrum of races and ethnicities and creeds.
— Jeb Bush
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I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I…
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I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative…
— Dick Cheney
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To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate…
— Marina Abramovic
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[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find…
— William Wilson Morgan
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Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.
— Unknown Author
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It is never too late to expand the mind of a person on the autism spectrum.
— Temple Grandin
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