Frasi di Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler è stato uno scrittore, filosofo e parapsicologo ungherese naturalizzato britannico.

✵ 5. Settembre 1905 – 1. Marzo 1983
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“La vera creatività comincia spesso dove termina il linguaggio.”

Origine: Da The Act of Creation, 1964.

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“Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit — it is not noticed.”

A Challenge to 'Knights in Rusty Armor, The New York Times, (14 February 1943).
Contesto: Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit — it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.

“A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque.”

Epilogue
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (1959)
Contesto: The uomo universale of the Renaissance, who was artist and craftsman, philosopher and inventor, humanist and scientist, astronomer and monk, all in one, split up into his component parts. Art lost its mythical, science its mystical inspiration; man became again deaf to the harmony of the spheres. The Philosophy of Nature became ethically neutral, and "blind" became the favourite adjective for the working of natural law. The space-spirit hierarchy was replaced by the space-time continuum.... man's destiny was no longer determined from "above" by a super-human wisdom and will, but from "below" by the sub-human agencies of glands, genes, atoms, or waves of probability.... they could determine his fate, but could provide him with no moral guidance, no values and meaning. A puppet of the Gods is a tragic figure, a puppet suspended on his chromosomes is merely grotesque.

“Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.”

Return Trip to Nirvana from Sunday Telegraph (1967).
Contesto: I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into the Other World', and with his belief that drugs can procure 'what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace'. Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

“Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself.”

Arthur Koestler libro The Act of Creation

The Act of Creation, London, (1970) p. 253.
Contesto: Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. The glory of science is not in a truth more absolute than the truth of Bach or Tolstoy, but in the act of creation itself. The scientist's discoveries impose his own order on chaos, as the composer or painter imposes his; an order that always refers to limited aspects of reality, and is based on the observer's frame of reference, which differs from period to period as a Rembrant nude differs from a nude by Manet.

“History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations”

Arthur Koestler libro Buio a mezzogiorno

Origine: Darkness at Noon

“The more original a discovery the more obvious it seems afterwards.”

Arthur Koestler libro The Act of Creation

The Act of Creation (1970).

“God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.”

Arthur Koestler libro The Ghost in the Machine

The Ghost in the Machine (1967).

“We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies — such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.”

as quoted by Michael Grossman in the The First Nonlinear System of Differential and Integral Calculus (1979).
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe (1959)

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