“ In the eyeball there is a clash between creation and reflection. The two-way globes of sight are magical revolving doors where the creative spirit meets itself in the created spirit. The eye that surv… Jostein Gaarder
“ It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die. Jostein Gaarder
“ All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can predict, is the past. Jostein Gaarder
“ I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary thought. It’s mind-boggling just to think about the exist… Jostein Gaarder
“ Thus the 'fortune-teller' is trying to foresee something that is really quite unforeseeable. This is characteristic of all forms of foreseeing. And precisely because what they 'see' is so vague, it is… Jostein Gaarder
“ I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin. Jostein Gaarder
“ 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… Jostein Gaarder
“ ... 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... Jostein Gaarder
“ It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep. Jostein Gaarder
“ But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old. Jostein Gaarder
“ A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creat… Jostein Gaarder
“ The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state. Jostein Gaarder
“ A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm. Jostein Gaarder
“ The truth is that I feel totally helpless, or totally inconsolable, to be more honest. I’m not trying to hide it, but it’s something you’re not to worry about. Jostein Gaarder
“ Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly a… Jostein Gaarder
“ She was a stranger. She came from a more beautiful fairytale than ours. But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people sometimes call ‘the… Jostein Gaarder
“ She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world, because if the whole world had seen it, it would have had the power to stop all wars and hat… Jostein Gaarder
“ I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what I have. Jostein Gaarder
