A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
– Arthur Koestler
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
– Arthur Koestler
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
– Arthur Koestler
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
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surelymeant us to stick it out.
– Arthur Koestler
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
– Arthur Koestler
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
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
– Arthur Koestler
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
– Arthur Koestler
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.
– Arthur Koestler
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
– Arthur Koestler
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
– Arthur Koestler
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
– Arthur Koestler
True creativity often starts where language ends.
– Arthur Koestler
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.