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Quote by Arthur Koestler
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mar

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark. – Arthur Koestler

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Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. – Arthur Koestler

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh, 1849

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In each generation the human mind in every man reverts to its starting-point; each new man is a primitive man. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied. – Nan Fairbrother

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