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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.

Jostein Gaarder

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Jostein Gaarder
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 8
Author
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Oslo
Norway
Truth
Feel
Inconsolable
Feels
Helpless
Trying
Hide
Something
Totally
Honest
Worry
Fear

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Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.
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Wisest is she who knows she does not know.
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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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We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as God's chosen people is not only stupid and arrogant, but a crime against humanity. We call it racism.
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We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.
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Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.
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going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way
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The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
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