Wasn't it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!
("Sophie's World")
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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
Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.
Jostein Gaarder
Wisest is she who knows she does not know.
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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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But she who wins the lot of life must also draw the lot of death, since the lot of life is death
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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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