For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we aren’t fully developed. The physical development of human beings necessarily had to precede the psychological. Perhaps the physical nature of… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Sophie couldn't stop smiling. It had to be true that nature was built up of small parts that never changed. At the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, thirty thousand years ago, there lived a little boy in the Rhine valley. He was a tiny part… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Is there such a thing as natural modesty? Wisest is she who knows she does not know... True insight comes from within.… — 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
Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Empedocles believed that there were two different forces at work in nature. He called them love and strife. Love binds things together,… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing. — 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
