Arthur Koestler Quote

Myths grow like crystals, according to their own, recurrent pattern; but there must be a suitable core to start their growth.


The Sleep Walkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe, Chapter I (p. 27), The Macmillan Co. 1959


Myths grow like crystals, according to their own, recurrent pattern; but there must be a suitable core to start their growth.

Myths grow like crystals, according to their own, recurrent pattern; but there must be a suitable core to start their growth.

Myths grow like crystals, according to their own, recurrent pattern; but there must be a suitable core to start their growth.

Myths grow like crystals, according to their own, recurrent pattern; but there must be a suitable core to start their growth.