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.

Jostein Gaarder

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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
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