Arthur koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

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.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

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.

True creativity often starts where language ends.

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.