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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!
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The history of ideas is like a drama in many acts.
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If a baker makes fifty absolutely identical cookies, he must be using the same pastry mold for all of them.
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The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
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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.
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Some are more equal than others.
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It was a beautiful thought that all living things were imperfect copies of the eternal forms in the world of ideas.
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do not control everything that happens in our body - which
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Nothing Can Come from Nothing
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If something was natural, she supposed, it was the same for everybody.
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The philosopher had rescued her. The unknown letter writer had saved her from the triviality of everyday existence.
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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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A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
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I am here only this once. And I shall never return.
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Ladies and Gentlemen ... we are floating in Space!
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At some point something must have come from nothing.
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It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.
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Hello again! As you see, this short course in philosophy will come in handy-sized portions.
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Wisest is she who knows she does not know.
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Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.
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I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.
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Long before the child learns to talk properly ... the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.
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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.
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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.
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For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him
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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 world becomes a dream, and the dream becomes reality.
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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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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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Existence takes priority over essence.
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Who had jolted Sophie out of her everyday existence and suddenly brought her face to face with the great riddles of the universe?
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Without imagination, nothing really new will ever be created.
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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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Everything you know gained from experience
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One mustn't be so cocksure, Joker says. Bad habit, he repeats.
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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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I am an extraordinary being, you think. I am a mysterious creature
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I said his line of thought - referring to the philosopher, because this is also a story of men.
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There is no order of things except in the human mind.
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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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The more self-evident a thing is to one's reason, the more certain it is that it exists
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No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.
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But flying across the centuries would have been a hefty job even for a very ironic goose. Crossing the Swedish provinces is far easier
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We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.
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I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.
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Nothing is ever actually invented by the mind. The mind puts things together and constructs false ideas
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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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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
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She had not even chosen to be a human being.
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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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She felt that it was only her body that was getting old. Inside she had always been the same young girl.
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I am in the world now, she thought, but one day I shall be gone.
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When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.
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Why was it so difficult to be absorbed in the most vital and, in a way, the most natural of all questions?
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The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.
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To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.
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Going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way
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The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold allkinds 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.
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On the Contrary, to Aristotle the 'forms' were in the things because they were the particular characteristics of these things
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Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.
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The artist plays freely on his faculty of cognition.
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It's strange how little time it takes to read.
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The universe is a great mystery.
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But it's important to be happy about the little you have. However little it is, it's infinitely more than nothing.
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If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.
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We can't own each other's past. The question is whether we have a future together.
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Nowadays we would perhaps call Plato's state totalitarian.
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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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Yes, we too are stardust.
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Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony
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A philosopher never gets quite used to the world.
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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.
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As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.
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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.
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If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!
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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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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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But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.
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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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All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.
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I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.
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If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from.
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Philosophers are always trying to climb up the fine hairs of the fur in order to stare right into the magician's eyes.
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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.
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Thor - the Batman or James Bond of the gods - has once again conquered the forces of evil.
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An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.
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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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The severance between us was surgical, and there was no anaesthetic..
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But that's not all, Sophie. IT'S NOT ALL!
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