“ The truth is that I feel like a ghost already, and I have to catch my breath each time I think about it. I begin to understand why ghosts go in for so much sighing and hooting. It's not to scare their… Jostein Gaarder
“ Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person. Jostein Gaarder
“ But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't as communicable as laughter or sadness, and a good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing. Jostein Gaarder
“ Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry. Jostein Gaarder
“ Perhaps we aren’t fully developed. The physical development of human beings necessarily had to precede the psychological. Perhaps the physical nature of the universe is merely a necessary external mat… Jostein Gaarder
“ But what is a person, George? How much is a person worth? Are we nothing but dust that is whipped up and spread to the winds? Jostein Gaarder
“ The of sitting a telescope in space was obviously not to get closer to the stars and planets the telescope was to study. That would have been about as daft as standing on tip-toe to get a better pictu… Jostein Gaarder
“ But if two people do almost nothing except search for one another, it's hardly surprising if they run across each other by chance. Jostein Gaarder
“ I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is 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 existence… Jostein Gaarder
“ Wir werden alt und grau. Wir werden eines Tages verschlissen sein und aus der Welt verschwinden. Mit unseren Träumen ist das anders. Sie können in anderen Menschen weiterleben, wenn es uns schon längs… Jostein Gaarder
“ When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye. Jostein Gaarder
“ Man is the measure of all things', said the Sophist Protagora (c. 485-410 B.C.). By that he meant that the question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in rela… Jostein Gaarder
“ He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and… Jostein Gaarder
“ If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition! Jostein Gaarder
“ Health is the natural condition. When sickness occurs, it is a sign that Nature has gone off course because of a physical or mental imbalance. The road to health for everyone is through moderation, ha… Jostein Gaarder
“ People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!) Jostein Gaarder
“ A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur. Jostein Gaarder
