Jostein Gaarder > Quotes

“the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“كم هو خطير أن يظل الرجال مسيطرين تماماً على الفلسفة والعلوم”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Both for a philosopher and for a scientist it can be important not to reject the possibility of finding a white crow. You might almost say that hunting for 'the white crow' is science's principal task”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“عزيزتي هيلد: لو كان العقل البشري بسيط التكوين، بحيث يسهل فهمه، لكنّا جد بلهاء أمام فهمه”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“ربما كانت هناك طرق كثيره للصعود من الوادي إلى قمة الجبل.. لكن الجبل سيظل دائماً الجبل نفسه, لا يتغير أبداً.. و لابد أن يكون بيني و بينك تشابه كبير حتى نستطيع الوصول إلى قمة الجبل... فمثلاً, لابد أن يكون كل منا من متسلقي الجبال و هناك على القمه.. قد نبني معاً بنياناً ضخماً من الحجاره.. ثم نجلس لنرتاح عليه قليلاً بعد هذا الجهد الذي بذلناه... و ننسى و لو لفتره قصيره همومنا كلها كبيرها و صغيرها..كأننا تركناها كلها وراءنا في الوادي
قلت: هل تعني أننا قد التقينا على الجبل نفسه.. مع إنني أتيت من كوكب و أتيت أنت من كوكب آخر؟

فأومأ برأسه موافقاً و قال: لا يهم اختلاف المكان الذي انطلقنا منه.. إنما المهم حقاً, هو الهدف الذي نسعى إليه”
― Jostein Gaarder, Hello? Is Anybody There?

“لكن أكثر ما يثير اندهاشي وتعجبي هو أن لي قلبا يستطيع أن يأخذني إلى عالمي الخاص. .”
― جوستاين غاردر, Hello? Is Anybody There?

“كان العبيد يقومون بكل الأعمال اليدوية، مما يترك فراغا كاملا لدى المواطنين الأحرار للاهتمام بالحياة الثقافية والسياسية. وهكذا رأينا أسلوباً جديداً في التفكير، يولد في المدن الكبرى. اذ كان للفرد الواحد، الحق في التساؤل حول تنظيم المجتمع.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“It was a beautiful thought that all living things were imperfect copies of the eternal forms in the world of ideas.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“manusia begitu pandai dalam banyak hal, menemukan luar angkasa dan komposisi atom..namun itu tidak membuat kit alebih memahami akan diri kita yang sebenarnya”
― Jostein Gaarder

“Karena hati memiliki kebijaksanaannya sendiri dan mengerti apa yang tak dipahami oleh otak.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Perpustakaan Ajaib Bibbi Bokken

“Circus performers and variety shows will never captivate me in the same way as steppes or rainforests, or the sky's uncountable galaxies and all the billions of light years that separate them.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Castle in the Pyrenees

“there is an artist in everyone. A dream is, after all, a little work of art, and there are new dreams every night.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Everything you know gained from experience”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World

“نحن لا نستطيع تقديم البرهان على ما يقوله ضميرنا ، لكننا رغم ذلك نعرفه جيدا”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“ولكن قبل أن يصبح الطفل قادراً على التكلم بشكل صحيح ، وقبل أن يتعلم التفكير بطريقة فلسفسة يكون الكون قد أصبح عادة .”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Tak ada aturan bagi seseorang dalam menulis, demikian juga dalam berpikir.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Perpustakaan Ajaib Bibbi Bokken

“If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of concealment. And the world is not something that gives itself away. The heavens still keep their secrets. There is little gossip amongst the stars. But no one has forgotten the Big Bang yet. Since then, silence has reigned supreme, and every thing there is moving away. One can still come across a moon. Or a comet. Just don't expect friendly greetings. No visiting cards are printed in space.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Maya

“Jeppe on the Mount
"By Ludvig Holberg


"Jeppe falls asleep in a ditch ... and wakes up in the Baron's bed. So he thinks he only dreamed that he was a poor farmhand. Then when he falls asleep again they carry him back to the ditch, and he wakes up again. This time he thinks he only dreamed he was lying in the Baron's bed.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“الفلسفة ليست شيئا يمكن تعلمه، و إنما يمكن تعلم التفكير بطريقة فلسفية”
― جوستاين غاردر, Sophie’s World

“الفلسفة لم تكن يوما لعبة اجتماعية ! إنها تتحدث عمن نكون نحن ومن أين جئنا .”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“رأت أنه لا يمكن العيش دون التساؤل عن الأصول، على الأقل .
من الذي سحب صوفي من حياتها الهادئة ليضعها أمام أحاجي الكون الكبرى؟ ”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Indeed, there is pain when spring buds burst..."
Wasn't there a Swedish poet who had said something like that? Or was she Finnish?”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Τίποτα δεν είναι πιο σκοτεινό, πιο ανεξιχνίαστο από το διάφανο. Το κρυστάλλινα διάφανο. Τίποτα δεν είναι πιο μυστηριώδες και πιο ακατανόητο από το καθημερινό. Από αυτό που ζούμε κάθε μέρα.”
― Jostein Gaarder

“As a Roman philosopher, Cicero, said of him a few hundred years later, Socrates 'called philosophy down from the sky and established her in the towns and introduced her into homes and forced her to investigate life, ethics, good and evil.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“When we dream, we feel we are experiencing reality. What separates our waking feelings from our dream feelings?"
"When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream," writes Descartes. And he goes on: "How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“— Quando a gente vai se encontrar outra vez?

Ela olha fixamente para o asfalto antes de erguer os olhos e me fitar. Suas pupilas dançam, inquietas, tenho a impressão de que seus lábios estão trêmulos. Então ela me apresenta um enigma com o qual ainda hei de quebrar muito a cabeça. Pergunta:

— Quanto tempo você consegue esperar?

Que diabo de resposta eu podia dar, Georg? Talvez fosse uma armadilha. Se dissesse "dois ou três dias", eu me mostraria impaciente demais. E se respondesse "a vida inteira" ela poderia pensar que eu não a amava tanto assim ou talvez que não fosse sincero. De modo que era preciso encontrar uma resposta intermediária. Eu disse:

— Agüento esperar até que o meu coração comece a sangrar de aflição.

Ela sorriu, insegura. Então roçou o dedo em meus lábios. E perguntou:

— E quanto tempo demora?

Desesperado sacudi a cabeça e resolvi dizer a verdade.

— Cinco minutos, talvez.

(A Garota das Laranjas)”
― Jostein Gaarder

“Nothing is ordirary. Sometimes people talk about 'an ordinary day'. This annoys me, because no two days are the same, and we have no idea how many more days of life we have left. Perhaps even worse than 'ordinary' hens or 'ordinary' days is talking about an 'ordinary' boy or girl. This is the sort of thing we say when we can't be bothered to get to know people better.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Hello? Is Anybody There?

“تربية الأطفال شيء أخطر من أن يترك لتقدير كل بمفرده.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Wasn't it odd that she didn't know who she was? And wasn't it unreasonable that she hadn't been allowed to have any say in what she would look like?”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World