Jostein Gaarder Quotes

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.

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• Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Never Been

• There is also something called the Legislature. There is something called the press. There is something called people. These are all different players on the stage.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • People
  • Different
  • Player

• From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Time
  • Generations
  • Nonsense

• Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Guy

• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Man
  • Clothes
  • Appearance

• I do think if you aim for quality, it's not so much about consumerism. The idea is 'Buy less, choose well, make it last.'

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Thinking
  • Quality
  • Aim

• I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Mountains
  • Carried
  • Sufferer

• Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knowledge
  • Sweet
  • Common

• My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-born in the land of Egypt. I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Dead
  • Hopes
  • Doom

• In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Years
  • Ready
  • Albums

• If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Energy
  • Life Is Short
  • Good Book

• The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Souls
  • Passions
  • Paradox

• The painter leaves his mark. And I just put in two statues in Rhode Island that I'm working on. And I think that's going to make me last longer than me.

  

  Anthony Quinn

• I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Understand
  • I See
  • Winos

• It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Believe
  • Science
  • Mistake

• Gobbledygook may indicate a failure to think clearly, a contempt for one's clients, or more probably a mixture of both. A system that can't or won't communicate is not a safe basis for a democracy.

  

  Michael Shanks
  • Democracy
  • Communicate
  • Contempt

• 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
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