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Jostein Gaarder
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 8
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Philosopher
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Oslo
Norway
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Floating
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Space

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That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.
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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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Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
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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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As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.
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Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
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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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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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Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales
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For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good it is civilization which ruins him
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You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.
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People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
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All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.
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I want to understand more about the world while Im still here.
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A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little.
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Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead.
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A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
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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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going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way
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The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about.
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