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Jostein Gaarder

You can never know if a person...

You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It's something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.

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Jostein Gaarder

... perhaps the clock hands ha...

... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead...

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Jostein Gaarder

Superstitious.' What a strang...

Superstitious.' What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called 'faith'. But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?

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Jostein Gaarder

Although you may not stumble a...

Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.

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Jostein Gaarder

Our lives are part of a unique...

Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.

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Jostein Gaarder

If just one of [those people] ...

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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Jostein Gaarder

When you realize there is some...

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

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Jostein Gaarder

I have gone around observing y...

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

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Jostein Gaarder

As long as we are children, we...

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

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Jostein Gaarder

a sensation is always the same...

a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.

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Jostein Gaarder

There is always Joker to see t...

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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Jostein Gaarder

A joker is a little fool who i...

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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Jostein Gaarder

How terribly sad it was that p...

How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.

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Jostein Gaarder

Socrates, whose mother was a m...

Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

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Jostein Gaarder

Athens is like a sluggish hors...

Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.

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Jostein Gaarder

A philosopher knows that in re...

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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Jostein Gaarder

The most subversive people are...

The most subversive people are those who ask questions.

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Jostein Gaarder

People are, generally speaking...

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.

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Jostein Gaarder

The rearing of children is con...

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

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Jostein Gaarder

A state that does not educate ...

A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.

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