Justein-gaarder Quote by Jostein Gaarder

“The last thing I needed was rational thought.”

— Jennifer A. Nielsen

“Then again, I’ve never been overly fond of rational thoughts.”

— Cat Hellisen

“the smooth, steady movement of my actions raised a sliver of panic in the rational man who was abandoning me.”

— Craig Johnson

“My existence was beginning to cause me serious concern. Was I a mere figment of the imagination?”

— Jean Paul Sartre

“There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“He was perpetually on guard against the ways that abstract thinking (especially thinking about your own thinking) can draw you away from something more…

— James Ryerson

“Gradually, I realized that the ideas I had embraced and defended blindly all my life represented a singular, and highly radical, point of view.…

— Manal al-Sharif

“Some days I felt invincible, though I had to constantly remind myself that my delusions of invincibility were driven primarily by anger and stupidity.…

— Bobby Adair

“But one never does form a just idea of anybody beforehand. One takes up a notion and runs away with it.”

— Jane Austen

“Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination.”

— Ruth Benedict

“This wasn’t how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.”

— Leila Sales

“When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-”

— Stephen King