But flying across the centuries would have been a hefty…

“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

“Uno no muere en medio del quinto acto.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.”

— Jostein Gaarder

...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

“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

“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

“without imagination, nothing really new will ever be created.”

— Jostein Gaarder

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

— Jostein Gaarder

“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

“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.”

— Jostein Gaarder

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

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

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

— Jostein Gaarder

“Wer das Schicksal durchschauen will, muss es überleben.”

— Jostein Gaarder