Arthur Koestler

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The most persistent sound, which reverberates through men's history, is the beating of war drums.

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.

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.

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

The most persistent sound which reverberates through mans history is the beating of war drums.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

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.

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

If conquerors be regarded as the engine drivers of History then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who less conspicuous to the travelers eye determine the direction of the journey.

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.

coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which miraculously it seems merge into a significant event.

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

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums.