All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish. - Jostein Gaarder

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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Jostein Gaarder

All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.

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But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

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The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

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History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process

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going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way

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Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

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