Jostein Gaarder Quotes - Page 5

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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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  Children, Drawing, Pieces

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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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  Powerful, Opponents, Faces

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• Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.

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  Morning, Character, Bangs

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

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• He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

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  Done, Athens, Leniency

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• 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.

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  Philosophy, Fall, Men

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• The universe is a great mystery.

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  Mystery, 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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  Horse, Plato, Pigs

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.

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  Police, Good Questions, Answers

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• I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

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  Writing, Good Friend, Thinking

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