Arthur Koestler Quotes:- Arthur Koestler (Born 5 September 1905 – 1 March 1983) was a Hungarian British author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria.
Over the next 43 years, from his residence in Britain, Koestler espoused many political causes and wrote novels, memoirs, biographies, and numerous essays.
Inspirational 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
“The principal 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 definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.”-Arthur Koestler
“Nothing is sadder than the death of an illusion.”-Arthur Koestler
“The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.”-Arthur Koestler
“Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.”-Arthur Koestler
“Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.”-Arthur Koestler
“The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums.”-Arthur Koestler
“A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.”-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
“The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.”-Arthur Koestler
“One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.”-Arthur Koestler
“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
“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
