Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
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
If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what… — 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
