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

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  People, Sociology, Certain

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• To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

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  Religious, Reason, Prove

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• Wisest is she who knows she does not know.

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  Philosophy, Science, Doe

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

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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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  Falling In Love, People, Planets

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.82, Macmillan

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• A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

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  Kings, Heart, Missing Him

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.75, Macmillan

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• I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary thought. It’s mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can’t see the universe for eye liner.

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  Girl, Eye, Thinking

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• I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.

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  Believe, Butterfly, Swimming

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• I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

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  Giving, Answers

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• Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.

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  People, Giving, Cost

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

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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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  Children, Responsibility, Important

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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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  People, Renaissance, Used

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• It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

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  Silly, Answers, Ifs

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• We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.

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  Together, Stardust, Thrown

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.162, Macmillan

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• There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

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  Generations, Earth, Fool

  Jostein Gaarder (1997). “The Solitaire Mystery”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• It is different for us mortals. We are the ones who become old and grey. We are the ones who become worn at the seams and disappear. But not our dreams. They can live on in other people even after we have gone.

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  Dream, People, Different

  Jostein Gaarder (1997). “The Solitaire Mystery”, Berkley Publishing Group

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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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  Philosophy, Understanding, Path

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

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• (As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

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  Glasses, Glimpse, Peers

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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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  Animal, Thinking, Problem

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.108, Hachette UK

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

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  Winning, Life Is Like, Tickets

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• If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.

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  Crazy, Adventure, Mean

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• ...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

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  Children, Thinking, Long

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.

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  Stupid, Believe, Racism

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• For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him

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  Men, Civilization, Ruins

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• It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

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  Skating On Thin Ice, Water, Pirouettes

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “The Ringmaster's Daughter”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Kierkegaard also said that truth is `subjective`. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the really important truths are personal. Only these truths are `true for me`.

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  Believe, Mean, Thinking

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