How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was… — 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
“It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“It was a beautiful thought that all living things were imperfect copies of the eternal forms in the world of ideas.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The philosopher had rescued her. The unknown letter writer had saved her from the triviality of everyday existence.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Life is both sad and solemn. We are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other—and wander… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher who will… — 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
Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Imagine that you were on the threshold of this fairytale, sometime billions of years ago when everything was created. And you were… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“But she who wins the lot of life must also draw the lot of death, since the lot of life is death” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“who had jolted Sophie out of her everyday existence and suddenly brought her face to face with the great riddles of the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“But Dad said we had to try, because neither he or I could bear the thought of living the rest of our… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into… — 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
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'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
According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“When we dream, we feel we are experiencing reality. What separates our waking feelings from our dream feelings?" "When I consider this… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“It seems as if in the process of growing up we lose the ability to wonder about the world. And in doing… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Dear Hilde, I assume you're still celebrating your 15th birthday. Or is it the morning after? Anyways, it makes no difference to… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“She was a stranger. She came from a more beautiful fairytale than ours. But she’d managed to find her way into our… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Watching Limelight with my mother really brought home to me the brevity of life. I realized in a little while that I… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Imagine that one day you are out for a walk in the woods. Suddenly you see a small spaceship on the path… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is we're actually living on a planet in space. For me that's… — 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
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