“All stars fall at some time. But a star is only a tiny spark from the great beacon in the sky.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.” — 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
“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
“Sophie found philosophy doubly exciting because she was able to follow all the ideas by using her own common sense - without… — 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
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
“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
“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
“The of sitting a telescope in space was obviously not to get closer to the stars and planets the telescope was to… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“The truth is that I feel like a ghost already, and I have to catch my breath each time I think about… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“To Summarize briefly: A white rabbit is pulled out of a top hat. Because it is an extremely large rabbit, the trick… — 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
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
“let's say you and a small child go to a magic show, where things are made to float in the air. Which… — 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
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
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
“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“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
...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
“We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share
![“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/i/402/jostein-gaarder-676_history_socrates-770-399-b-c-e-is-possibly-the-m_811167.jpg)
