Quotes by : Jostein Gaarder

Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that....

She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole....

A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination....

When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt....

I can wait until my heart bleeds with sorrow.

So now you must choose... Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or are you a philosopher....

If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday....

I never tried to ingratiate myself with great writers. When a great writer has nothing to say, he does....

Thus the 'fortune-teller' is trying to foresee something that is really quite unforeseeable. This is....

All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago.....