In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

- Arthur Koestler

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only]…

- Arthur Koestler

The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or caus…

- Arthur Koestler

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

- Arthur Koestler

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of …

- Arthur Koestler

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

- Arthur Koestler

The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, fac…

- Arthur Koestler

Two half truths do not make a truth.

- Arthur Koestler

The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose co…

- Arthur Koestler