334 Quotes by Jostein Gaarder

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.

I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.

Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It is like a crime that has not been solved. There is an answer, even if police do not know it.

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.

All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

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