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Arthur Koestler
Hungarian
Novelist
About the author
True creativity often starts where language ends.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
#Language
#Creativity
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,
Hungarian
Novelist
#Life
#Science
#Theories
#Progress
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
#Perfection
#Originality
#Genius
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
#War
#Man
#History
#Sound
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
#Eternity
#Scientists
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
#Actions
#Courage
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
#Art
#Originality
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,
Hungarian
Novelist
#Time
#Years
#Writer
#Trade
#Ambition
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
#Stars
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
#Learning
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
#Nothing
#Death
#Illusion
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
#World
#May
#Emotions
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,
Hungarian
Novelist
#End
#Old
#History
#Politics
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
Arthur Koestler,
Hungarian
Novelist
#Obvious
#Discovery