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
Politics, Other, Means, Old One
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.
- Arthur Koestler
Through, Most, Which, Beating
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
- Arthur Koestler
Face, Reaching, His, Grin
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar.
- Arthur Koestler
Milk, Bar, Like, Writes
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
Years, Hundred, Reader, Hundred Years
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
- Arthur Koestler
Process, Activity, Could, Located
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
- Arthur Koestler
Genius, New, Frontiers, Perfection
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
- Arthur Koestler
World, Metaphysical, May, Brothel
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
Like, Which, Discarded, Skeleton
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
- Arthur Koestler
Art, Forgetting, Originality, Prerequisite
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
- Arthur Koestler
Eternity, Keyhole, Toms
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
- Arthur Koestler
Individual, Multitude, Million
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
- Arthur Koestler
Original, More, Afterwards, Seems
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
- Arthur Koestler
Death, Sad, More, Illusion
True creativity often starts where language ends.
- Arthur Koestler
True, Often, Ends, Starts
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
- Arthur Koestler
Courage, Never, Influenced, Fears
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