Jostein Gaarder Quotes - Page 2

• Y aunque en mi vida sólo he visto cuervos negros, eso no significa que no exista el cuervo blanco. Tanto para un filósofo como para un científico puede ser importante no rechazar la posibilidad de encontrar un cuervo blanco. Casi podría decirse que la caza del "cuervo blanco" es la principal tarea de la ciencia.

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  Mean, Hunting, White

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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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  Generations, Earth, Fool

  Jostein Gaarder (1997). “The Solitaire Mystery”, Berkley Publishing Group

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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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  People, Renaissance, Used

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• It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

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  Silly, Answers, Ifs

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• Socrates himself said, 'One thing only I know, and this is that I know nothing.' Remember this statement, because it is an admission that is rare, even among philosophers. Moreover, it can be so dangerous to say in public that it can cost you your life. The most subversive people are those who ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers.

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  People, Giving, Cost

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• Creo que hay algo del misterio divino en todo lo que existe. Podemos verlo brillar en un girasol o en una amapola. Sentimos más el misterio insondable en una mariposa que revolotea desde una ramita... o en un pez de colores que nada en una pecera. Pero donde más cerca estamos de Dios es en nuestra propia alma. Sólo allí podemos hacernos uno con el mayor misterio de la vida. En verdad, en muy raros momentos podemos experimentar que nosotros mismos somos ese misterio divino.

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  Believe, Butterfly, Swimming

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• We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.

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  Together, Stardust, Thrown

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.162, Macmillan

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• To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

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  Religious, Reason, Prove

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• I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary thought. It’s mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can’t see the universe for eye liner.

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  Girl, Eye, Thinking

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• When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time." "The idea is much too big for my little head." "The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.

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  Stars, Light, Years

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• The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

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  Philosopher, Wonder, Faculty

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• (As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

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  Glasses, Glimpse, Peers

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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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  Animal, Thinking, Problem

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

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  Winning, Life Is Like, Tickets

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• A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

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  Kings, Heart, Missing Him

  Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.75, Macmillan

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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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  People, Stupidest, Absolutely Nothing

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• If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.

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  Crazy, Adventure, Mean

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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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  Children, Thinking, Long

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him

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  Men, Civilization, Ruins

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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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  Stupid, Believe, Racism

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• Señoras y señores... ¡estamos flotando en el espacio!

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  Space, Gentleman, Floating

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• Kierkegaard also said that truth is `subjective`. By this he did not mean it doesn't matter what we think or believe. He meant that the really important truths are personal. Only these truths are `true for me`.

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  Creer, Significar, Pensar

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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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  Past, Together, Futures Together

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• A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

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  Hands, White, Differences

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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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  Realidad, Gente, Importante

  Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.66, Hachette UK

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