Top 30 Gaarder G Rd Quotes
#1. But the dream of something unlikely has its own special name. We call it hope.
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#2. If our brains were as simple as we could understand them, than we would be so stupid that we couldn't understand them again.
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#3. The memories float further and further away from that which once created them.
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#4. I am an extraordinary being, you think. I am a mysterious creature
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#5. A sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.
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#6. According to Kierkegaard, rather than searching for the Truth with a capital T, it is more important to find the kind of truths that are meaningful to the individual's life. It is important to find 'the truth for me'.
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#7. I'm not playing!' Sophie retorted indignantly, 'I'm doing a very important philosophical experiment!
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#8. Who are you?
Where does the world come from?
What annoying questions! And anyway where did the letters come from? That was just as mysterious, almost.
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#9. 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 creative process.
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#10. 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.
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#11. It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others
to shake them out of their rut.
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#13. For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him
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#14. There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.
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#15. In the year 399 B.C.[E.] he was accused of "introducing new gods and corrupting the youth," as well as not believing in the accepted gods. With a slender majority, a jury of five hundred found him guilty.
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#16. Maybe we can comprehend a flower or an insect, but we can never comprehend ourselves. Even less can we expect to comprehend the universe.
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#17. WHEN WE EVENTUALLY ARRIVED in Venice late in the afternoon, we had to park the car in a large lot before we were allowed to enter the town itself, because Venice doesn't have a single proper street.
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#18. The more self-evident a thing is to one's reason, the more certain it is that it exists
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#19. We don't learn anything there [school]. The difference between schoolteachers and philosophers us that school-teachers think they know a lot of stuff that they try to force down our throats. Philosophers try to figure things out together with the pupils
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#21. It was rather like having been color-blind. She had seen some shadows but had not seen the clear ideas.
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#22. Going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way
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#23. I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.
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#25. Long before the child learns to talk properly ... the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.
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#26. If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from.
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#27. It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter.
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#28. You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.
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#29. Lots of people have hobbies. some people collect old coins or foreign stamps, some do needlework, others spend most of their spare time on a particular sport.
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