Sophie's World

by Jostein Gaarder

bigger and clearer the other side became too. You can’t experience being alive without realizing that you have to die, she thought. But it’s just as impossible to realize you have to die without thinking how incredibly amazing it is to be alive.

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A myth is a story about the gods which sets out to explain why life is as it is.

Facts. God(s) were made up to so that people, without technology nor science, could explain things they didn’t understand

The aim of the early Greek philosophers was to find natural, rather than supernatural, explanations for natural processes.

Be logical in their analysis. Stoicism here

Women of the past were subjugated both as females and as

thinking beings, which is sad because a great deal of very important experience was lost as a result. It was not until this century that women really made their mark on the history of philosophy.

Love these words. The suppression of any group of people is a lost opportunity for innovation, creation, and brilliant minds

All the earliest philosophers shared the belief that there had to be a certain basic substance at the root of all change.

our senses give us an incorrect picture of the world,

rationalist is someone who believes that human reason is the primary source of our knowledge of the world.

“cannot step twice into the same river.” When I step into the river for the second time, neither I nor the river are the same.

Both good and bad have their inevitable place in the order of things,

there must be a kind of “universal reason” guiding everything that happens in nature.

Hmmm. Maybe?

four roots were earth, air, fire, and water.

Basically, nothing changes. What happens is that the four elements are combined and separated—only to be combined again.

You probably wouldn’t admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.

they both had a message that was inseparably linked to their personal courage.

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