Arthur Koestler Quotes

"True creativity often starts where language ends."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Creativity, Language)

"The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Life, Science, Progress, Theories)

"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Genius, Originality, Perfection)

"The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: History, War, Man, Sound)

"The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million."
- Arthur Koestler

"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Eternity, Scientists)

"Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Courage, Actions)

"A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar."
- Arthur Koestler

"The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Art, Originality)

"A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in ten years' time and for one reader in a hundred years' time."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Time, Ambition, Trade, Writer, Years)

"Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Stars)

"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Learning)

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Death, Illusion, Nothing)

"One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Emotions, May, World)

"Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means."
- Arthur Koestler
(Related: Politics, History, End, Old)