As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world.… — 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
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good… — 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… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure! — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
When we talked about Socrates, we saw how dangerous it could be to appeal to people's reason. With Jesus we see how… — 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 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
A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of… — 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
