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

Jostein Gaarder

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Jostein Gaarder
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 8
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Novelist
Philosopher
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Oslo
Norway
Space
Gentlemen
Ladies
Floating
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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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To wonder about life is not something we learn it is something we forget.
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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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According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find `the truth for me`.
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Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.
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going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way
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I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.
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