Dystopian Author Quotes

Arthur Koestler The creative act does not create something out of nothing; it uncovers, selects, reshuffles, combines, synthesizes already existing facts, ideas, faculties, and skills.

Arthur Koestler 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 […]

Arthur Koestler History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.

Arthur Koestler Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which – miraculously, it seems – merge into a significant event.

Arthur Koestler We cannot unthink unless we are insane.

Arthur Koestler The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to […]

Arthur Koestler Two half truths do not make a truth.

Arthur Koestler You can’t help people being right for the wrong reasons…This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; […]

Arthur Koestler Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the […]