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cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology - Arthur Koestler Quotes

cheerfully slain in the name of the true religion, just policy, or correct ideology

Arthur Koestler

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

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

Ambition Hungarian Novelist

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This i - Arthur Koestler Quotes

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This i

Arthur Koestler

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out - Arthur Koestler Quotes

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out

Arthur Koestler

God

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture. - Arthur Koestler Quotes

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture.

Arthur Koestler

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

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

Arthur Koestler

Definition Hungarian Novelist

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

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

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. - Arthur Koestler Quotes

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

Arthur Koestler

Art Hungarian Novelist

Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face. - Arthur Koestler Quotes

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

Arthur Koestler

Hungarian Novelist

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

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

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