Quotes by Arthur Koestler

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

#Arthur Koestler

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning...

#Arthur Koestler

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

#Arthur Koestler

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil...

#Arthur Koestler

A writer's ambition should be to trade a hundred contemporary readers for ten readers in...

#Arthur Koestler

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

#Arthur Koestler

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

#Creativity

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

#Discovery

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is...

#Evolution

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

#Courage, #Influence

Scientists are peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity

#Scientists

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

#War