Kane Kane

“الأغلبية العظمى من الناس تكتفي بالعيش بين الظلال. معتدقيدن أن هذه الظلال، هي الشيء الوحيد الموجود ولا يعون أنها ليست سوى صور. وفي هذا الواقع، ينسون الطبيعة الخالدة لنفوسهم.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“From the point of view of pure logic or philosophy, there will often be a dialectical tension between two concepts.
For example...
If I reflect on the concept of 'being,' I will be obliged to introduce the opposite concept, that of 'nothing.' You can't reflect on your existence without immediately realizing that you won't always exist. The tension between 'being' and 'nothing' becomes resolved in the concept of 'becoming.' Because if something is in the process of becoming, it both is and is not.”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

“Nevertheless we are free individuals, and this freedom condemns us to make choices throughout our lives. There are no eternal values or norms we can adhere to, which makes our choices even more significant. Because we are totally responsible for everything we do. Sartre emphasized that man must never disclaim the responsibility for his actions. Nor can we avoid the responsibility of making our own choices on the grounds that we "must" go to work, or we "must" live up to certain middle-class expectations regarding how we should live. Those who thus slip into the anonymous masses will never be other than members of the impersonal flock, having fled from themselves into self-deception. On the other hand our freedom obliges us to make something of ourselves, to live "authentically" or "truly".”
― Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World