Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
...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 Image
