Quotes About Koestler

For the anthropomorphic view of the rat, American psychology substituted a rattomorphic view of man. —Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation

there are no frontiers where the realm of science ends and that of art begins, and the uomo universale of the Renaissance was a citizen of both.

In the ring this had always brought him considerable applause, but he had learned to his regret that in the class struggle the double Nelson was not done.

The jokes in the previous section can all be described as universes of discourse colliding, frames getting entangled, or contexts getting confused.

Pensando en España, Orwell le dijo en cierta ocasión a Koestler: "la historia se paró en 1936".

Its benefits to the poet are evident: the rhyme is merely a glorified pun, two strings of ideas bisociated in an acoustic knot.