There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.
Jostein GaarderWhat Plato was really asking was perhaps why a horse was a horse, and not, for example, a cross between a horse and a pig.
Jostein GaarderWhere both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
Jostein GaarderYou can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.
Jostein Gaarder