quotes by Arthur Koestler

"Show us not the aim without the way.
For ends and means on earth are so entangled
That changing one, you change the other too;
Each different path brings other ends in view"
— Arthur Koestler

"Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious."
— Arthur Koestler (The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe)

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

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

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— Arthur Koestler

"I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned."
— Arthur Koestler

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

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

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