{"author":"Jostein Gaarder","author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder","total_quotes":76,"quotes":[{"text":"When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice.","author":"Jostein Gaarder","tags":["death","life","philosophy"],"id":15635,"author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder"},{"text":"When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.","author":"Jostein Gaarder","tags":["philosophy"],"id":20931,"author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder"},{"text":"Was Jesus a christian?","author":"Jostein Gaarder","tags":["christianity","jesus"],"id":22282,"author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jostein Gaarder","tags":["justein-gaarder","magical-realism","philosophy","the-orange-girl"],"id":25072,"author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jostein Gaarder","tags":["justein-gaarder","magical-realism","philosophy","the-orange-girl"],"id":42486,"author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder"},{"text":"A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.","author":"Jostein Gaarder","tags":["education","equality","women","women-s-rights"],"id":43628,"author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder"},{"text":"But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.","author":"Jostein Gaarder","tags":["history","history of mankind","philosophy"],"id":53150,"author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder"},{"text":"She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world, because if the whole world had seen it, it would have had the power to stop all wars and hatred on the face of the planet, or at lease there would have been some long ceasefires.","author":"Jostein Gaarder","tags":["jostein-gaarder","magical-realism","philosophy","the-orange-girl"],"id":57986,"author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder"},{"text":"Over the entrance to the temple at Delphi was a famous inscription: KNOW THYSELF! It reminded visitors that man must never believe himself to be more than mortal - and that no man can escape his destiny.","author":"Jostein Gaarder","tags":["delphi","destiny","fate","mortality"],"id":77618,"author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder"},{"text":"The faculty of vision can vary from person to person. On the other hand, we can rely on what our reason tells us because that is the same for everyone.","author":"Jostein Gaarder","tags":["philosophy","reason"],"id":80540,"author_id":"Jostein+Gaarder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":76,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}