Jostein Gaarder

“I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang…

— Jostein Gaarder

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

— Jostein Gaarder

The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws…

— Jostein Gaarder

Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good…

— Jostein Gaarder

“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Po haljini sam mogao da vidim kako njeno telo diše, jer se haljina dizala i spuštala, dizala i spuštala, skoro kao da…

— Jostein Gaarder

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.

— Jostein Gaarder

“without imagination, nothing really new will ever be created.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." I…

— Jostein Gaarder

“Sophie left the den and wandered about in the large garden. She tried to forget what she had learned at school, especially…

— Jostein Gaarder

...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

“any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Uno no muere en medio del quinto acto.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Wer das Schicksal durchschauen will, muss es überleben.”

— Jostein Gaarder

What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse…

— Jostein Gaarder

“Existence takes priority over essence.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“Tampoco tienes derecho a usarte a ti mismo como un mero medio para conseguir algo".”

— Jostein Gaarder

I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something…

— Jostein Gaarder

But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her…

— Jostein Gaarder

“Who are you? Where does the world come from? What annoying questions! And anyway where did the letters come from? That was…

— Jostein Gaarder

When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt —…

— Jostein Gaarder

“As you can imagine, the wandering Sophists created bitter wrangling in Athens by pointing out that there were no absolute norms for…

— Jostein Gaarder

“Ne maram, da bi ravno ti sodila med lene in ravnodušne. Želim, da se odločiš za budno življenje.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“The Cynics emphasized that true happiness is not found in external advantages such as material luxury, political power, or good health. True…

— Jostein Gaarder