“I hope that you have inherited a mind that is open to such small mysteries. They are no less thought-provoking than the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only… — 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
“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
