Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler

WRITER

Arthur Koestler was born on September 5, 1905 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary as Kösztler Artúr. He was a writer, known for Darkness at Noon, Producers' Showcase (1954) and Le téléthéâtre de Radio-Canada (1954). He was married to Cynthia May Jefferies, Mamaine Paget and Dorothee Ascher. He died on March 3, 1983 in London, England.

  • When was
    Arthur Koestler born?

    Arthur Koestler was born on Tuesday, September 5, 1905

  • Where was
    Arthur Koestler born?

    Arthur Koestler was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

  • How old was
    Arthur Koestler when they died?

    Arthur Koestler was 77

  • When did Arthur Koestler die?

    Arthur Koestler died on
    Thursday, March 3, 1983


Best Quotes

  • Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the ol...
  • Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
  • Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
  • Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred.
  • The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.
  • Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which
  • When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The individual is not a killer, the group is, and by identifying with it, the individual becomes one. This is the infernal dialect reflected in man's history.
  • If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
  • God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.
  • If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction.

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