Quotes by : Jostein Gaarder

But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up....

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility....

A true philosopher must never give up.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around....

Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast....

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to....

The of sitting a telescope in space was obviously not to get closer to the stars and planets the telescope....

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to....

The faculty of vision can vary from person to person. On the other hand, we can rely on what our reason....

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes....