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"Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers."
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Robert Graves
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Arthur Koestler Quotes
Type:
Novelist
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Date of Birth:
1905-09-05 |
Year of Death:
1983 |
Nationality:
Hungarian
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
Arthur Koestler
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler
If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.
Arthur Koestler
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surelymeant us to stick it out.
Arthur Koestler
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler
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
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
Arthur Koestler
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
Arthur Koestler
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
Arthur Koestler
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
Arthur Koestler
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestler
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
Arthur Koestler
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler
True creativity often starts where language ends.
Arthur Koestler
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