Philosophy Quote by Jostein Gaarder

“A real philosopher, Sophie, is completely different kettle of fish - the direct opposite, in fact. A philosopher knows that in reality he knows…

— Jostein Gaarder

“who had jolted Sophie out of her everyday existence and suddenly brought her face to face with the great riddles of the universe?”

— Jostein Gaarder

“True, she never got a real M.B.A., but she had taken courses online and worked her way through list after list of so-called Great…

— Laura Lippman

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an…

— Robert Goolrick

Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered…

— Cassandra Clare

“Prepare for the worst, and pursue the fun: this was her philosophy”

— Meredith Duran

“she had been interested in many things, but nothing had completely satisfied her; indeed, she hardly desired complete satisfaction. Her intellect was at the…

— Anton Chekhov

“For the first time in her life she could talk openly of the things which interested her and were important to her. She had…

— Anna Kavan

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

— Morris Raphael Cohen

“Her journal, the only thing in the world that she owned, held the events of her life. Things she wanted to forget and things…

— Luke Alistar

She thought of the last couple of years: the boredom, the narrowness of existence, the dearth of anything to look forward to. Yet now,…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

— Charles Simic