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I want to understand more about the world while Im still here.

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
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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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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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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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You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.
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I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
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The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
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Wisest is she who knows she does not know.
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And although I have seen nothing but black crows in my life, it doesn't mean that there's no such thing as a white crow. Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task.
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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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When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.
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We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.
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Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.
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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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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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If I’d chosen never to the foot inside the great fairytale, I’d never have known what I’ve lost. Do you see what I’m getting at? Sometimes it’s worse for us human beings to lose something dear to us than never to have had it at all.
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What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.
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For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good it is civilization which ruins him
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I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.
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When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.
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