5 September: Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler, CBE was a Hungarian-British author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest on 5 September 1905 and, apart from his early school years, was educated in Austria. 

1. Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
2. Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
3. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
4. Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. 
5. Creativity is the defeat of habit by originality.
6. A sadist is a person who is kind to a masochist.
7. Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.
8. Man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.
9. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.
10. We cannot think unless we are insane.