Resistance to innovation is clearly demonstrated, not by the ignorant masses, but by professionals with a vested interest in tradition and the monopoly of learning.
~ Arthur Koestler

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Every jump of technical progress leaves the relative intellectual development of the masses a step behind, and thus causes a fall in the political-maturity thermometer. It takes sometimes tens of years, sometimes generations, for a people’s level of understanding gradually to adapt itself to the changed state of affairs, until it has recovered the same capacity for self-government as it had already possessed at a lower stage of civilization.
~ Arthur Koestler

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Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.
~ Arthur Koestler

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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.
~ Arthur Koestler

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The ancient doctrine of original sin, variants of which occur independently in the mythologies of diverse cultures, could be a reflection of man’s awareness of his own inadequacy, of the intuitive hunch that somewhere along the line of his ascent something has gone wrong.
~ Arthur Koestler

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When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak, the result of some remarkable mistake in the evolutionary process.
~ Arthur Koestler

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Some of the greatest discoveries consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks – which obstruct the approach to reality – which is why, post factum, they appear so obvious.
~ Arthur Koestler

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