Quotes by Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler

Hungarian Born British Writer

Lived from: 1905 - 1983

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 5 september 1905 Died: 1 march 1983

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

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  • A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
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  • 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.
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  • Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
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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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  • 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.
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  • If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
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  • Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
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  • One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
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  • 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.
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  • Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
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  • Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
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  • 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.
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  • The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
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  • The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
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  • The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
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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 principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
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  • 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.
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  • True creativity often starts where language ends.
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What are the most famous quotes from Arthur Koestler?

The two most famous quotes from Arthur Koestler are:

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

When did Arthur Koestler live?

Arthur Koestler was born in 1905 and died in the year 1983.