Arthur Koestler

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. ”

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

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

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

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. ”

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

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. ”

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ”

True creativity often starts where language ends. ”

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. ”