“We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt —… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Life is both sad and solemn. We are let into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other—and wander… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The history of thought - or of reason - is like this river. The thoughts that are washed along with the current… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“They made up all those myths in the time before there was anything called science.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“But the days are still ours, and we still have many fine moments ahead of us.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Lots of people have hobbies. some people collect old coins or foreign stamps, some do needlework, others spend most of their spare… — 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
“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
When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“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
“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
