Jostein Gaarder Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Science, Doe

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.66, Hachette UK

• Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Opposites, Fairy Tale

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

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Understanding, Path

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.214, Macmillan

• Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Fall, Men

• As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Home, Years

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