All Jostein Gaarder Quotes
- Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe. Comprehend
- You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. Best
- If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent. Ask
- The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about. Absolutely
- A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the… All
- When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms… Been
- I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as incredible as… Anymore
- Only philosophers embark on this perilous expedition to the outermost reaches of language and existence. Some of them fall off, but others cling on desperately… Care
- ... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder... Faculty
- Yes, we too are stardust. Funny
- Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space! Floating
- But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save… Call
- The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re… Fear
- But all fairytales have rules, and perhaps it’s their rules that actually distinguish one fairytale from the other. These rules never need to be understood.… All
- When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in… Big
- If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at?… All
- Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love,… Brain
- A Russian cosmonaut and a Russian brain surgeon were once discussing Christianity. The brain surgeon was a Christian, but the cosmonaut wasn’t. ‘I have been… Amazement
- There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was… All
- It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die. Billions