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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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Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua…
— Stephen Ambrose
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I have had a few turning points, the first day I entered a gymnastics school at age 6.
— Nadia Comaneci
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I hate outlines. I have a broad sense of where the story is going; I know the end, I know the end…
— George R. R. Martin
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Turning points in human consciousness occur when new energy regimes converge with new communications revolutions, creating new economic eras.
— Jeremy Rifkin
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Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible…
— Arthur Koestler
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People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in…
— Thandie Newton
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Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established
— George Soros
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I don't believe in right-angled turning points.
— Timothy West
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In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are…
— Kate Morton
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Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times…
— William Bridges
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There is a purpose to our lives, even if it is sometimes hidden from us, and even if the biggest turning points…
— Arianna Huffington
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