Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.
~ Arthur Koestler
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Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
~ 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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Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one’s own nervous system.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
~ Arthur Koestler
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Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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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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Men cannot be treated as units in operations of political arithmetic because they behave like the symbols for zero and the infinite, which dislocate all mathematical operations.
~ 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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