Arthur Koestler Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Struggle

• True creativity often starts where language ends.

  Arthur Koestler

  Inspirational, Business, Creativity

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

• In my youth I regarded the universe as an open book, printed in the language of equations, whereas now it appears to me as a text written in invisible ink, of which in our rare moments of grace we are able to decipher a small segment.

  Arthur Koestler

  Book, Grace, Ink

• Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.

  Arthur Koestler

  War, Taken, Eggs

• Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.

  Arthur Koestler

  War, Men, Epidemics

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