Jostein Gaarder Quotes about Children

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...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

Jostein Gaarder

Children, Thinking, Long

Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.23, Hachette UK

The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

Jostein Gaarder

Children, Responsibility, Important

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

Children, Growing Up, Long

Jostein Gaarder (2003). “The Solitaire Mystery”, p.361, Macmillan

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

Children, Drawing, Pieces

Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

Jostein Gaarder

Mother, Art, Children

Jostein Gaarder Quotes about Children

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