Arthur Koestler Quotes

Arthur Koestler (17)

Birth:	5th September, 1905
Death:	1st March, 1983
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Journalist, Novelist

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• Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

  Arthur Koestler

  Topics in Death, Dream, Friendship

  Tags in Illusion, Aspiration

• 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

  Topics in History, Politics

  Tags in Breathing, Fair, Justifies, Possible

• Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

  Arthur Koestler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learning, Creativity

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

  Arthur Koestler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learning, Teacher, Creativity

• A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

  Arthur Koestler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Milk, Cow

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

  Arthur Koestler

  Topics in Influence

  Tags in Courage

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

  Arthur Koestler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Space, Grin, Prometheus, Empty, Stars, Reaching

• Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

  Arthur Koestler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Eternity, Scientists, Keyhole, School

• One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical br*thel for emotions.

  Arthur Koestler

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Metaphysical, World

• 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

  Topics in Ambition

  Tags in Readers

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

  Arthur Koestler

  Tags in Individuality, Multitude

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

  Arthur Koestler

  Tags in Discovery, Originality

• True creativity often starts where language ends.

  Arthur Koestler

• 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

• The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

  Arthur Koestler

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

  Arthur Koestler

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

  Arthur Koestler