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List of Arthur Koestler Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 148 inspiring quotes by Arthur Koestler.

About Arthur Koestler

  • Born: September 5, 1905
  • Died: March 1, 1983
  • Occupation: Author
    • ...the temptation, which consisted of a single word written on the cemetary of the defeated: sleep.
    Sleep Temptation Defeated
    We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.
    Errors Generations Consequence
    The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.
    Men Missing Society
    In the index to the six hundred odd pages of arnold toynbee's a study of history, abridged version, the names of copernicus, galileo, descartes and newton do not occur yet their cosmic quest destroyed the medieval vision of an immutable social order in a walled-in universe and transformed the european landscape, society, culture, habits and general outlook, as thoroughly as if a new species had arisen on this planet.
    Order Names Historical
    One of the tests of a theory is that, once grasped, it appears self-evident.
    Self Society Tests
    If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of history, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.
    Eye Journey History
    To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you like pate de foie gras.
    Book Want Ridiculous
    We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.
    Sight Ideas Firsts
    As modern physics started with the newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the cartesian catastrophe. the catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. the result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part.
    Philosophy Science Thinking
    The cell door slammed behind rubishov.
    Book Doors Cells
    The self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.
    Self Expression Society
    Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.
    May Hallucinations Nervous
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