305 Quotes by Arthur Koestler

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

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

True creativity often starts where language ends.

...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction.

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

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

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.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.