Sophie's World
by Jostein Gaarder | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
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Just clearing out some of my boxes. TBR.
I have almost finished my current read The Fall of Shane MacKade by Nora Roberts, and have literally rolled the dice to see what I am about to read next. And, ta-da, this book is up next. Hopefully, I'll get the chance to crack it open tomorrow night!
This is a British edition so I imagine it came from my boxes in NZ/Australia. This is a book I've always been meaning to read.
This is a British edition so I imagine it came from my boxes in NZ/Australia. This is a book I've always been meaning to read.
I collect quotes as I read. These ones ended up as my sig file and I want to share them with you. Sometimes they're not earth shattering but more often they are ... Take what you like, and leave the rest.
The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder .. p10
The most subversive people are those that ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers. p58
She ended [her essay] with a paragraph on the fact that everything people can do can be used for good or evil. Good and evil are like a white and a black thread that make up a single strand. Sometimes they are so closely intertwined that it is impossible to untangle them. p184
Democritus, on the other hand, thought people and animals were really rather alike because both were made up of atoms. And he didn't think that either people or animals had immortal souls. According to him, souls were built up of atoms that are spread to the winds when people die. He was the one who thought a person's soul was inseparably bound to the brain.
But how could the soul be made of atoms? The soul wasn't anything you could touch like the rest of the body. It was something 'spiritual.' p186
'So "to be or not to be" is not the whole question. The question is also 'who' we are. Are we really human beings of flesh and blood? Does our world consist of real things - or are we encircled by the mind?' p236
What was consciousness? Wasn’t it one of the greatest riddles of the universe? What was memory? What made us ‘remember’ everything we had seen and experienced?
What kind of mechanism made us create fabulous dreams night after night? p371
The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder .. p10
The most subversive people are those that ask questions. Giving answers is not nearly as threatening. Any one question can be more explosive than a thousand answers. p58
She ended [her essay] with a paragraph on the fact that everything people can do can be used for good or evil. Good and evil are like a white and a black thread that make up a single strand. Sometimes they are so closely intertwined that it is impossible to untangle them. p184
Democritus, on the other hand, thought people and animals were really rather alike because both were made up of atoms. And he didn't think that either people or animals had immortal souls. According to him, souls were built up of atoms that are spread to the winds when people die. He was the one who thought a person's soul was inseparably bound to the brain.
But how could the soul be made of atoms? The soul wasn't anything you could touch like the rest of the body. It was something 'spiritual.' p186
'So "to be or not to be" is not the whole question. The question is also 'who' we are. Are we really human beings of flesh and blood? Does our world consist of real things - or are we encircled by the mind?' p236
What was consciousness? Wasn’t it one of the greatest riddles of the universe? What was memory? What made us ‘remember’ everything we had seen and experienced?
What kind of mechanism made us create fabulous dreams night after night? p371
