Facts about Arthur Koestler

Occup.	Novelist
From	Hungary
Born	September 5, 1905
Died	March 3, 1983
Aged	77 years

Summary

Arthur Koestler was a famous Novelist from Hungary, who lived between September 5, 1905 and March 3, 1983. He/she became 77 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful. Our collection contains 16 quotes who is written / told by Arthur.

Related authors: George Mikes (Writer)

16 Famous quotes by Arthur Koestler

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

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 points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means"

Arthur Koestler

"True creativity often starts where language ends"

Arthur Koestler

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

Arthur Koestler

"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion"

Arthur Koestler

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

Arthur Koestler

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

Arthur Koestler

"The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers"

Arthur Koestler

"The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million"

Arthur Koestler

"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity"

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

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

Arthur Koestler

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

Arthur Koestler

"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"

Arthur Koestler

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

Arthur Koestler