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
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
Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not… — 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
There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
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
A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds.… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent. — 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
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
Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people's reason. With Jesus we see how… — 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