Justein Gaarder Quotes

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

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 picture of the craters on the moon. The whole idea of a space telescope is to study space from a point outside the earth' atmosphere that gives that impression, in roughly the same way the ripping surface of a lake can give the impression that the stones beneath are wavy and indistinct. Or the reverse: from the bottom of a swimming pool it's not easy to see what's happening above the surface.

~ 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

We are the universe.

~ 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 material for its own self-awareness.

~ Jostein Gaarder

Look at the world, Georg, look at the world before you've filled yourself with too much physics and chemistry.

~ 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

I can wait until my heart bleeds with sorrow.

~ Jostein Gaarder

Although I've always been easily led by my imagination, I was, and I remain, a rational person.

~ Jostein Gaarder