Arthur Koestler

Show us not the aim without the way. For ends and means on earth are so entangled That changing one, you change the other too; Each different path brings other ends in view ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#inspirational #change

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

#change

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#father-and-son #love

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

— Arthur Koestler

#discovery #more #obvious #original #seems

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#drums #history #man #most #persistent

True creativity often starts where language ends. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#ends #language #often #starts #true

A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#cow #like #milk #publisher #who

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

— Arthur Koestler

#courage #fears #influenced #never #your

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#illusion #more #nothing #sad #than

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. ↗

— Arthur Koestler

#contemporary #hundred #reader #readers #should