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The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated. — Arthur Koestler

What is an editor but a cross between a fall guy and a father figure? arthur koestler — Arthur Koestler

Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations. — Arthur Koestler

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood. — Arthur Koestler

Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust. — Arthur Koestler

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

The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it. — Arthur Koestler

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

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. — Arthur Koestler

To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind. — Arthur Koestler

The temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: Sleep. — Arthur Koestler

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

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. — Arthur Koestler

To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras. — Arthur Koestler

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

The hangman is a disgrace to any civilized country. — Arthur Koestler

Two half truths do not make a truth. — Arthur Koestler

Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it's absolute unfreedom. — Arthur Koestler

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

One of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident. — Arthur Koestler

The addiction to the Soviet myth is as tenacious and difficult to cure as any other addiction. — Arthur Koestler

We whip the groaning masses of the country towards a theoretical future happiness, which only we can see. — Arthur Koestler

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations — Arthur Koestler

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

Had not history always been an inhumane, unscrupulous builder, mixing its mortar of lies, blood and mud? — Arthur Koestler

Brain-washing starts in the cradle. — Arthur Koestler

Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. — Arthur Koestler

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth. — Arthur Koestler

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time. — Arthur Koestler

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. — Arthur Koestler

and there was only one revolutionary virtue which he had not learned, the virtue of self-deception — Arthur Koestler

True creativity often starts where language ends. — Arthur Koestler

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways. — Arthur Koestler

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture — Arthur Koestler

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean. — Arthur Koestler

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

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up. — Arthur Koestler

I am not sure whether ethical absolutes exist. But I am sure that we have to act as if they existed or civilization perishes. — Arthur Koestler

Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality. — Arthur Koestler

Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation. — Arthur Koestler

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo. — Arthur Koestler

Faith is a wondrous thing; it is not only capable of moving mountains, but also of making you believe that a herring is a race horse. — Arthur Koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity. — Arthur Koestler

The distance between the library and the bedroom is astronomical — Arthur Koestler

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species. — Arthur Koestler

The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. — Arthur Koestler

Every creative act involves a new innocence or perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. — Arthur Koestler

Habit is the denial of creativity and the negation of freedom; a self-imposed straitjacket of which the wearer is unaware. — Arthur Koestler

Honor is decency without vanity. — Arthur Koestler

There is an abundance of ancient place names in the Ukraine and Poland, which derive from 'Khazar' or 'Zhid' (Jew). — Arthur Koestler

Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale ... — Arthur Koestler

You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.
'No, I didn't. Communism ditched me by turning into Stalinism'. — Arthur Koestler

In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot. — Arthur Koestler

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

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out. — Arthur Koestler

For the anthropomorphic view of the rat, American psychology substituted a rattomorphic view of man. - Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation — Alfie Kohn

The self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. — Arthur Koestler

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes. — Arthur Koestler

Adolescence is a kind of emotional seasickness. Both are funny, but only in retrospect. — Arthur Koestler

Newton's apple and Cezanne's apple are discoveries more closely related than they seem. — Arthur Koestler

The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. — Arthur Koestler

No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is conscious of it or not. — 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

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five — Arthur Koestler

We cannot unthink unless we are insane. — 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

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it. — Arthur Koestler

A sadist is a person who is kind to a masochist. — Arthur Koestler

Perhaps he did not know himself - like all these intellectual cynics ... — Arthur Koestler

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. — Arthur Koestler

If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it out. — Arthur Koestler

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

The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost. — Arthur Koestler

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience. — Arthur Koestler

The jester is brother to the sage. — Arthur Koestler