Author: Arthur Koestler

Quotes

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.

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 progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

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

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.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

- Arthur Koestler

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

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

- Arthur Koestler

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

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

- Arthur Koestler

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