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

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  Giving, Answers

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• And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.

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  Mean, Hunting, White

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

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  Silly, Answers, Ifs

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• Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.

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  Dream, Adventure, Angel

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.166, 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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• 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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• The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

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  Philosopher, Wonder, Faculty

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

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

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  People, Sociology, Certain

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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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• 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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  People, Stupidest, Absolutely Nothing

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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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• Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!

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  Space, Gentleman, Floating

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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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• We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.

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  Past, Together, Futures Together

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• A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

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  Hands, White, Differences

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