“Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.” — 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
“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
“But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too.… — 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and… — 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
“I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is we're actually living on a planet in space. For me that's… — 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
