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“Wisest is she who knows she does not know.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy

“Superstitious." What a strange word. If you believed in Christianity or Islam, it was called "faith". But if you believed in astrology or Friday the thirteenth it was superstition! Who had the right to call other people's belief superstition?”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“Although you may not stumble across a Martian in the garden, you might stumble across yourself. The day that happens, you'll probably also scream a little. And that'll be perfectly all right, because it's not every day you realize you're a living planet dweller on a little island in the universe.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“Our lives are part of a unique adventure... Nevertheless, most of us think the world is 'normal' and are constantly hunting for something abnormal--like angels or Martians. But that is just because we don't realize the world is a mystery. As for myself, I felt completely different. I saw the world as an amazing dream. I was hunting for some kind of explanation of how everything fit together.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead...”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery

“a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

“هی فلانی! زندگی شاید همین باشد؟
یک فریب ساده و کوچک
آن هم از دست عزیزی که تو دنیا را
جز برای او و جز با او نمی خواهی.
من گمانم زندگی باید همین باشد.”
― اخوان ثالث

“باش تا نفرین دوزخ از تو چه سازد
که مادران سیاه پوش
داغ داران زیباترین فرزندان آفتاب و باد
هنوز از سجاده ها
سر بر نگرفته اند ”
― احمد شاملو / Ahmad Shamlou

“کوه از نخستین سنگ آغاز می شود و انسان از نخستین درد”
― احمد شاملو

“لحظه ی دیدار نزدیک است
باز من دیوانه ام ، مستم
باز می لرزد ، دلم ، دستم
باز گویی در جهان دیگری هستم
های ! نخراشی به غفلت گونه ام را ، تیغ
های ، نپریشی صفای زلفکم را ، دست
و آبرویم را نریزی ، دل
ای نخورده مست
لحظه ی دیدار نزدیک است”
― مهدی اخوان ثالث / Mehdi Akhavan Sales

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“و اکنون تو با مرگ رفته ای و من اینجا تنها به این امید دم می زنم که با هر نفس گامی به تو نزدیکتر شوم و این است زندگی من”
― دکتر علی شریعتی

“درخت را به نام برگ
بهار را به نام گل
ستاره را به نام نور
کوه را به نام سنگ
دل شکفتۀ مرا به نام عشق
عشق را به نام درد
مرا به نام کوچکم صدا بزن”
― عمران صلاحی

“قاصدک! هان، چه خبر آوردي؟
از کجا، وز که خبر آوردي؟
خوش خبر باشي، امّا، امّا
گرد بام و در من
بي ثمر مي گردي.
انتظار خبري نيست مرا
نه زياري نه ز ديّاري ، باري،
برو آنجا که بود چشمي و گوشي با کس،
برو آنجا که ترا منتظرند.
قاصدک!
در دل من همه کورند و کرند.
دست بردار از اين در وطن خويش غريب.
قاصدک تجربه هاي همه تلخ،
با دلم مي گويد
که دروغي تو، دروغ
که فريبي تو، فريب.
قاصدک! هان، ولي ...
راستي آيا رفتي با باد؟
با توام، آي کجا رفتي؟ آي...!
راستي آيا جايي خبري هست هنوز؟
مانده خاکستر گرمي، جايي؟
در اجاقي- طمع شعله نمي بندم - اندک شرري هست هنوز؟
قاصدک!
ابرهاي همه عالم شب و روز
در دلم مي گريند ...”
― مهدی اخوانِ ثالث

“امروز كشف مهمي كردم. اين كشف محصول سه ماه تفكر تامل و مراقبه است. من به طرز غريبي كه اين كلمات هرزه نمي توانند بگويند چه قدر از اين كشف هيجان زده ام. آنقدر كه دلم مي خواهد بروم بالاي ساختمان و فرياد بكشم. من امروز دريافتم كه سرانجام همه بي گمان همه و بدون هيچ استثنايي خواهيم مرد. من امروز اين واقعيت را اين يقين يگانه و يكتا را كه بي ترديد و تا صد سال ديگر هيچ اثري از ما نخواهد بود از عمق جان دريافتم. من از اين حقيقت از اين عدالت محض از اين تنها عدالت مطلق هستي كه هيچ عدالتي به وضوح و شفافيت و شكوه و قطعيت و معناداري آن نيست از اين كه تنها تا صد سال فقط تا صد سال ديگر حتي يك نفر از ما شش ميليارد آدمي كه حالا مثل كرم روي اين تل خاكي در هم مي لوليم وجود نخواهيم داشت به طرز به شدت شكرآوري خوش حالم...”
― مصطفی مستور