Quote by Jostein Gaarder Download Open image ““Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian.”” — Jostein Gaarder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“There is no different nations, or people. There is no countries, and never was. There is, just a system we live in.” — VicDo Copy Share Image
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“Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man… — Irwin Edman Copy Share Image
“But utopias don't exist, of course, anywhere in any world. Like alchemy or perpetual motion.” — Haruki Murakami 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
