Jostein Gaarder Short Quotes

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The Idea is much too big for my little head.

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Going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way

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When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.

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Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

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People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

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The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...

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You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.

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Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.

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A sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.

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Everything we see in the sky is a cosmic fossil from thousands and millions of years ago.

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A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

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It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

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Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

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Wasn't it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

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

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Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

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How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

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Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

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The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

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The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.

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The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.

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

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If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.

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The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

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When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye.

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When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

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Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.

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There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.

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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, Dad.

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But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

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