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Arthur Koestler [1905-1983] Hungarian

Rank: 103
Novelist, Author

Arthur Koestler, CBE was a Hungarian-British author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria.

Courage, Death, Learning, Politics, Sad, Science, Teacher

Quote	Tags	Rank
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.	Death, Sad	101
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.	Courage	102
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.	Learning, Teacher	103
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.		104
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.		105
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.	Science	106
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.	Politics	107
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.		108
True creativity often starts where language ends.		109
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.		110
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.		111
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.		112
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.		113
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.		114
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.		115
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.		116

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