Quotes of Arthur Koestler - somelinesforyou

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

- Arthur Koestler

“ The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. ”

- 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

“ Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. ”

- 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

“ The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions, involve a narrowing of consciousness; the participatory emotions an expansion of consciousness by identificatory processes of various kinds. ”

- Arthur Koestler

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

- Arthur Koestler

“ The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. ”

- Arthur Koestler

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

- Arthur Koestler

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

- Arthur Koestler

“ War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ Brain-washing starts in the cradle. ”

- Arthur Koestler

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

- Arthur Koestler

“ When all is said, its atmosphere (England's) still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived. ”

- Arthur Koestler

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

- Arthur Koestler

“ When all is said, its atmosphere (England's) still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ I think most historians will agree that the part played by impulses of selfish, individual aggression in the holocausts of history was small; first and foremost, the slaughter was meant as an offering to the gods, to king and country, or the future happiness of mankind… ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ The collective matrix of a science at a given time is determined by a kind of establishment, which includes universities, learned societies, and, more recently, the editorial offices of technical journals. Like other establishments, they are consciously or unconsciously bent on preserving the status quo - partly because unorthodox innovations are a threat to their authority, but also because of the deeper fear that their laboriously erected an intellectual edifice might collapse under the impact. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer. ”

- Arthur Koestler

“ Brain-washing starts in the cradle. ”

- Arthur Koestler

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

- Arthur Koestler

“ If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction. ”

- Arthur Koestler
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