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Arthur Koestler Quotes

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality Picture Quote #1

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations Picture Quote #1

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture Picture Quote #1

Einstein’s space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh’s sky Picture Quote #1

We cannot unthink unless we are insane Picture Quote #1

The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex Picture Quote #1

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The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes Picture Quote #1

Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them Picture Quote #1

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self destruction Picture Quote #1

We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies - such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later Picture Quote #1

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man - a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization Picture Quote #1

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short - circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links Picture Quote #1

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He had learned that every known physical pain was bearable; if one knew beforehand exactly what was going to happen to one, one stood it as a surgical operation - for instance, the extraction of a tooth Picture Quote #1

Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred Picture Quote #1

Spaceships 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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use Picture Quote #1

Behaviorism is indeed a kind of flat - Earth view of the mind... It has substituted for the erstwhile anthropomorphic view of the rat, a ratomorphic view of man Picture Quote #1

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To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one's own conscience is to abandon mankind Picture Quote #1

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned Picture Quote #1

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual Picture Quote #1

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out Picture Quote #1

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event Picture Quote #1

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five Picture Quote #1

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Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality (Arthur Koestler Quotes) History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations (Arthur Koestler Quotes) Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture (Arthur Koestler Quotes) Einstein’s space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh’s sky (Arthur Koestler Quotes) We cannot unthink unless we are insane (Arthur Koestler Quotes) The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex (Arthur Koestler Quotes) The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes (Arthur Koestler Quotes) Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them (Arthur Koestler Quotes) If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self destruction (Arthur Koestler Quotes) We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies - such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later (Arthur Koestler Quotes) Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man - a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization (Arthur Koestler Quotes) The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short - circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links (Arthur Koestler Quotes) He had learned that every known physical pain was bearable; if one knew beforehand exactly what was going to happen to one, one stood it as a surgical operation - for instance, the extraction of a tooth (Arthur Koestler Quotes) Laughter and weeping, the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy, mark the extremes of a continuous spectrum; both provide channels for the overflow of emotion; both are "luxury reflexes" without apparent utility. This much they have in common; in every other respect they are direct opposites (Arthur Koestler Quotes) Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred (Arthur Koestler Quotes) Spaceships 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual (Arthur Koestler Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know (Arthur Koestler Quotes) 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 Quotes) The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use (Arthur Koestler Quotes) Behaviorism is indeed a kind of flat - Earth view of the mind... It has substituted for the erstwhile anthropomorphic view of the rat, a ratomorphic view of man (Arthur Koestler Quotes) To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one's own conscience is to abandon mankind (Arthur Koestler Quotes) History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned (Arthur Koestler Quotes) Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual (Arthur Koestler Quotes) If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out (Arthur Koestler Quotes) Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event (Arthur Koestler Quotes) Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five (Arthur Koestler Quotes)

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