Jostein Gaarder Quotes

Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales.

Jostein Gaarder

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• A lot of people don't remember anything since 'Ice Ice Baby,' but I've got 3 records out since then and they're all successes - but not commercially.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Remember
  • Baby

• If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • You
  • Me
  • Fire

• I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• When people get rich, they cut themselves off from the context that has earned them these riches - the context of the common men. They forget they are part of society.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Men
  • Society

• I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Black
  • Said

• Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Hair
  • Head
  • Wig

• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
  • You
  • Couple
  • Years

• I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Me
  • Saying
  • Newspapers

• I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Me
  • Like
  • Comfortable

• Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Power
  • Dark
  • Deep

• The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Order
  • Product
  • Genetic

• People say Malala's voice is being sold to the world. But I see it as Malala's voice reaching the world and resonating globally. You should think about what is behind Malala's voice. What is she saying? I am only talking about education, women's rights, and peace.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • World
  • Women

• There are three successive states of morality answering to the three principal stages of human life; the personal, the domestic, and the social stage.

  

  Auguste Comte
  • Life

• Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

  

  Idries Shah
  • May
  • Man
  • Woman

• The feeling of losing oneself in somebody's arms, yet at the same time finding oneself there, is irreplaceable. Nothing compares to the intensity of that feeling.

  

  Katarina Witt
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Intensity

• When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Kids
  • Firsts
  • Used

• We feel pretty comfortable as a team. I don't think we're under pressure to take any one particular spot, to be truthful, right now. I think we can be pretty comfortable at 53, just taking the best athlete.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Pretty
  • Team
  • Athlete

• Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Joy

• Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like.

  

  Plato
  • Desires
  • Opposite
  • Void

• My philosophy is that every phone conversation has a loser.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Philosophy
  • Conversation
  • Loser

• We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

  

  William James
  • Truth
  • Clear
  • Opposites

• Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places that had once belonged to cigarettes now belonged to phones.

  

  William Gibson
  • Language
  • Phones
  • Cigarette

• Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Philosophy
  • Opposite
  • Fairytales