Arthur Koestler Quotes

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

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

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.

Much depends on asking the right question at the right time.

Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth.

Wars are not fought for territory but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic the group-mind takes over.