“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
“Tampoco tienes derecho a usarte a ti mismo como un mero medio para conseguir algo".” — 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)” — 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
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
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
“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
“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
“I said his line of thought - referring to the philosopher, because this is also a story of men.” — 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
“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
“The philosopher had rescued her. The unknown letter writer had saved her from the triviality of everyday existence.” — 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
“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
“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
