334 Quotes by Jostein Gaarder

Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony

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`.

But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from.

going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way

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

We are the living planet!

(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.

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