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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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A man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with…
— George Santayana
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I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find…
— Francis Frangipane
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I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.
— Diana Nyad
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However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a…
— Jimmy Page
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Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this…
— Albert Einstein
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Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated.…
— Justin Timberlake
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On closer inspection, the hero status accorded to Abraham, Moses and David in the Old Testament (and echoed in the New Testament)…
— Paul Copan
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I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any…
— Malcolm X
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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
— Woodrow Wilson
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The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Anger and humor are like the left and right arm. They complement each other. Anger empowers the poor to declare their uncompromising…
— James H. Cone
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