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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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Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only…
— Dave Barry
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to…
— Isaiah Berlin
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The life of man is a struggle on earth. But without a cross, without a struggle, we get nowhere. The victory will…
— Boniface Wimmer
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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.
— Robert Ringer
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The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear…
— Unknown Author
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Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know…
— James P. Hogan
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I edit as I go. Especially when I go to commit it to paper. I prefer a typewriter even to a computer.…
— John Prine
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I am discounting reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?
— Stephen Hawking
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The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly…
— Patrick Henry
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Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh; an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and…
— Erich Fromm
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Awareness is something apart from, and different from, all that of which we are aware: thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, desires and memory.…
— Arthur J. Deikman
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Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.
— Ruud Gullit
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