Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World Quotes
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur.
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.
When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye.
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.
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
All a man can see while looking at the sky are cosmic fossils of thousands and millions of years ago. The only thing an astrologer can predict, is the past.
If you believed in Christianity or Islam it was called 'faith', but if you believed in astrology or friday the thirteenth it was Superstition!
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent (Both types are crawling around deep down in the rabbit's fur!)
It's not him who's disturbed. But he likes to disturb others--to shake them out of their rut.