Arthur Koestler Short Quotes

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True creativity often starts where language ends.

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Man cannot inherit the past; he has to recreate it.

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No death is so sad and final as the death of an illusion.

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We can add to our knowledge, but we cannot subtract from it.

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Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

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The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

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History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

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Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.

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God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.

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One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

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Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

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The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

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One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

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Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect.

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Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem.

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The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

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It has been said that discovery consists in seeing an analogy which nobody had seen before.

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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

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The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

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My comfort is what Einstein said…'If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor'.

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Went down to explore a Black Hole. A stark singularity, Devoid of all charity, Devoured the mole as a whole.

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Artists treat facts as stimuli for the imagination, while scientists use their imagination to coordinate facts.

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The limitations of our biological equipment may condemn us to the role of Peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity.

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There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew).

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

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If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

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I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes.

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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

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Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse.

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The history of cosmic theories... may without exaggeration be called a history of collective obsessions and controlled schizophrenias.

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