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
The most persistent sound which reverberates through man’s history is the beating of war drums. – Arthur Koestler
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. – 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
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. – 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
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
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. – Arthur Koestler
