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The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.


Arthur Koestler

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ARTHUR RIMBAUD There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome --to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He mu...
ARTHUR SYMONS Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that othe...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no mo...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
ARTHUR MILLER A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
ARTHUR MILLER I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back ...
ARTHUR MILLER My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he...
ARTHUR MILLER A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
ARTHUR MILLER Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.
ARTHUR GOLDEN Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is qu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intel...
ARTHUR MILLER We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and ...
ARTHUR O'SHAUNESSEY I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the h...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only...
ARTHUR PINE If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on...
ARTHUR MILLER