Quote: Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: True creativity often starts where language ends. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: 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]
Quote: The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: 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]
Quote: A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: 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]
Quote: Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: 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]
Quote: 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]
Quote: The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: If the Creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated
from the cataract of accepted belief. [Arthur Koestler]
Quote: Creative activity could be described as a type of learning
process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. [Arthur Koestler]