“The faculty of vision can vary from person to person. On the other hand, we can rely on what our reason tells… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it… — 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… — 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
“Tampoco tienes derecho a usarte a ti mismo como un mero medio para conseguir algo".” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I said his line of thought - referring to the philosopher, because this is also a story of men.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“If our brain was simple enough for us to understand it, we would be so stupid we wouldn't be able to understand… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“As she closed the gate behind her she noticed her own name on one of the big envelopes. Turning it over, she… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world,… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“I wonder whether the Christmas feeling has anything to do with the sixth sense. Perhaps we're a little more the angels at… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Socrates (770-399 B.C.[E.]) is possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy. He never wrote a single line. Yet… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was… — 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
“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
“We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff… — 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
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
“From the point of view of pure logic or philosophy, there will often be a dialectical tension between two concepts. For example...… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“A real philosopher, Sophie, is completely different kettle of fish - the direct opposite, in fact. A philosopher knows that in reality… — 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
“and to be quite frank, that is precisely what we need philosophers for. We do not need them to choose a beauty… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The Cynics emphasized that true happiness is not found in external advantages such as material luxury, political power, or good health. True… — 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
“The philosopher had rescued her. The unknown letter writer had saved her from the triviality of everyday existence.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Don't you think it's a small mystery that birds can twitter so loudly that they can hear each other's song from several… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“This is precisely where philosophers are a notable exception. A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. to him or her,… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder... — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“It was rather like having been color-blind. She had seen some shadows but had not seen the clear ideas.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.” — 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
![“Socrates (770-399 B.C.[E.]) is possibly the most enigmatic figure in the entire history of philosophy. He never wrote a single line. Yet he is one of the philosophers who has had the greatest influence on European thought, not least because of the dramatic manner of his death.” quote by Jostein Gaarder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/402/jostein-gaarder-676_history_socrates-770-399-b-c-e-is-possibly-the-m_811167.jpg)
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