“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The expectation of one thing following another does not lie in the things themselves, but in our mind. And expectation is associated… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever actually invented by the mind. The mind puts things together and constructs false "ideas” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I hope that you have inherited a mind that is open to such small mysteries. They are no less thought-provoking than the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Hegel believed that the basis of human cognition changed from one generation to the next. There were therefore no 'eternal truths', no… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“as Hume expressed it. The mind is 'a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearance; pass, re-pass, slide away,… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Everything we see and feel is "an effect of God's power," said Berkeley. For God is "intimately present in our consciousness, causing… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Hume emphasized that the expectation of one thing following another does not lie in the things themselves, but in our mind. And… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
“Po haljini sam mogao da vidim kako njeno telo diše, jer se haljina dizala i spuštala, dizala i spuštala, skoro kao da morski talasi… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
“The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." I don't want… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
“Sophie left the den and wandered about in the large garden. She tried to forget what she had learned at school, especially in science… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
“We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
