Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!
("Sophie's World")
More Quotes from Jostein Gaarder:
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.Jostein Gaarder
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
Jostein Gaarder
We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.
Jostein Gaarder
Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.
Jostein Gaarder
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
Jostein Gaarder
You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.
Jostein Gaarder
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