How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history… — 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… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp… — 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 sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something… — 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
