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Was Jesus a christian? — Jostein Gaarder

I'm not playing!' Sophie retorted indignantly, 'I'm doing a very important philosophical experiment! — Jostein Gaarder

The history of ideas is like a drama in many acts. — Jostein Gaarder

If a baker makes fifty absolutely identical cookies, he must be using the same pastry mold for all of them. — Jostein Gaarder

The most subversive people are those who ask questions. — Jostein Gaarder

What do you learn in school, Hans Thomas?" Dad asked. "To sit still," I replied. "It's so difficult that we spend many years learning to do it. — Jostein Gaarder

Some are more equal than others. — Jostein Gaarder

It was a beautiful thought that all living things were imperfect copies of the eternal forms in the world of ideas. — Jostein Gaarder

do not control everything that happens in our body - which — Jostein Gaarder

Nothing Can Come from Nothing — Jostein Gaarder

If something was natural, she supposed, it was the same for everybody. — Jostein Gaarder

The philosopher had rescued her. The unknown letter writer had saved her from the triviality of everyday existence. — Jostein Gaarder

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

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. — Jostein Gaarder

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

I am here only this once. And I shall never return. — Jostein Gaarder

Ladies and Gentlemen ... we are floating in Space! — Jostein Gaarder

At some point something must have come from nothing. — Jostein Gaarder

It's not a silly question if you can't answer it. — Jostein Gaarder

Hello again! As you see, this short course in philosophy will come in handy-sized portions. — Jostein Gaarder

Wisest is she who knows she does not know. — Jostein Gaarder

Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge. — Jostein Gaarder

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers. — Jostein Gaarder

Long before the child learns to talk properly ... the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me. — Jostein Gaarder

The very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face. — Jostein Gaarder

Indeed, there is pain when spring buds burst..."
Wasn't there a Swedish poet who had said something like that? Or was she Finnish? — Jostein Gaarder

It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter. — Jostein Gaarder

For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him — Jostein Gaarder

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

The world becomes a dream, and the dream becomes reality. — Jostein Gaarder

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

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

Existence takes priority over essence. — 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

Without imagination, nothing really new will ever be created. — Jostein Gaarder

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

Everything you know gained from experience — Jostein Gaarder

One mustn't be so cocksure, Joker says. Bad habit, he repeats. — Jostein Gaarder

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

I am an extraordinary being, you think. I am a mysterious creature — Jostein Gaarder

I said his line of thought - referring to the philosopher, because this is also a story of men. — Jostein Gaarder

The memories float further and further away from that which once created them. — Jostein Gaarder

There is no order of things except in the human mind. — Jostein Gaarder

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

The more self-evident a thing is to one's reason, the more certain it is that it exists — Jostein Gaarder

No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement. — Jostein Gaarder

But flying across the centuries would have been a hefty job even for a very ironic goose. Crossing the Swedish provinces is far easier — Jostein Gaarder

We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust. — Jostein Gaarder

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

I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin. — Jostein Gaarder

Nothing is ever actually invented by the mind. The mind puts things together and constructs false ideas — Jostein Gaarder

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. — Jostein Gaarder

The faculty of vision can vary from person to person. On the other hand, we can rely on what our reason tells us because that is the same for everyone — Jostein Gaarder

She had not even chosen to be a human being. — Jostein Gaarder

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

She felt that it was only her body that was getting old. Inside she had always been the same young girl. — Jostein Gaarder

I am in the world now, she thought, but one day I shall be gone. — Jostein Gaarder

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

Why was it so difficult to be absorbed in the most vital and, in a way, the most natural of all questions? — Jostein Gaarder

The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous. — Jostein Gaarder

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap. — Jostein Gaarder

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

The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold all
kinds of wares. Finally he said, What a lot of things I don't need! — Jostein Gaarder

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

On the Contrary, to Aristotle the 'forms' were in the things because they were the particular characteristics of these things — Jostein Gaarder

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences. — Jostein Gaarder

Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. — Jostein Gaarder

The artist plays freely on his faculty of cognition. — Jostein Gaarder

It's strange how little time it takes to read. — Jostein Gaarder

The universe is a great mystery. — Jostein Gaarder

But it's important to be happy about the little you have. However little it is, it's infinitely more than nothing. — Jostein Gaarder

If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. — Jostein Gaarder

We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together. — Jostein Gaarder

Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian. — 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 no effort. — Jostein Gaarder

Yes, we too are stardust. — Jostein Gaarder

Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony — Jostein Gaarder

A philosopher never gets quite used to the world. — Jostein Gaarder

Plato found mathematics very absorbing because mathematical states never change. — Jostein Gaarder

Do you mind telling me what's suddenly so important?'
Sophie just shook her head. 'It's ... it's a secret.'
'Yuck! You're probably in love. — Jostein Gaarder

But Dad said we had to try, because neither he or I could bear the thought of living the rest of our lives without her. — Jostein Gaarder

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

If our brain was simple enough for us to understand it, we would be so stupid we wouldn't be able to understand it after all. — Jostein Gaarder

But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope. — Jostein Gaarder

If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition! — Jostein Gaarder

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

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

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. — Jostein Gaarder

But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old. — 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

All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish. — Jostein Gaarder

I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch. — Jostein Gaarder

If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from. — Jostein Gaarder

Philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes. — Jostein Gaarder

When two people meet," he said, "and one is upside down, it isn't always easy to tell which of them is the right way up. — Jostein Gaarder

Thor - the Batman or James Bond of the gods - has once again conquered the forces of evil. — Jostein Gaarder

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward. — Jostein Gaarder

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

The severance between us was surgical, and there was no anaesthetic.. — Jostein Gaarder

But that's not all, Sophie. IT'S NOT ALL! — Jostein Gaarder