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Yes, we too are stardust.
We are the living planet!
Some are more equal than others.
The universe is a great mystery.
Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales
Wisest is she who knows she does not know.
I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.
Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.
Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!
It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.
All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.
We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.
There is no order of things except in the human mind.
The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
I want to understand more about the world while Im still here.
I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
I am really more interested in questions than in giving answers.
going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way
To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.
When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.
Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.
To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.
People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.
The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.
You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.
If we don't know where we are going, it can be helpful to know where we come from.
Athens is like a sluggish horse, and I am the gadfly trying to sting it into life.
For nature is good, an man is 'by nature' good; it is civilization which ruins him
Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.
We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.
Love, your own witch-daughter, Queen of the Mirror and the Highest Protector of Irony
a sensation is always the same as a piece of news, and a piece of news never lives long.
A state that does not educate and train women is like a man who only trains his right arm.
It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.
No day is alike - I do many other things, and I'm very active in the environmental movement.
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!
An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.
How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.
The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.
The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.
What Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.
I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.
I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.