This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. The sun will never shine as it does today...But you...
These rules, the sign language and grammar of the Game, constitute a kind of highly developed secret language drawing upon several sciences and arts, but especially mathematics and music (and/or music...
Therefore, it seems to me that everything that exists is good - death as well as life, sin as well as holiness, wisdom as well as folly. Everything is necessary, everything needs only my agreement, my...
There are numerous ways in which God can make us lonely and lead us back to ourselves. This is the way He dealt with me at the time. It was like a bad dream.
Retki su ljudi koji umeju da slušaju drugoga, nikad nikoga nisam sreo ko bi to umeo kao ti. I tome ću se učiti od tebe.
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of writing them down, and then in the morning they vanish...
O gizi de, diye sordu bir defasında dostu Vasudeva'ya, sen de ırmaktan öğrendin mi o gizi, zaman diye bir şey olmadığını? ...Evet, Siddharta, diye cevapladı Vasudeva. Senin demek istediğin şu olacak s...
Music does not depend on being right, on having good taste and education and all that. Indeed. Then what does it depend on? On making music, Herr Haller, on making music as well and as much as possibl...
Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more har...
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ancients). He is nothing else than the narrow and p...
Lo recuerdo asistiendo al colegio, lo recuerdo miesterioso, solo y callado al igual que un planeta magnífico rodeado de pequeñas estrellas y que sólo obedece a sus propias leyes.
Let's practice a little philosophy now; that is, let's shut up, lie on our stomachs, and think.
La sabiduría no es comunicativa. La sabiduría que un sabio intenta comunicar suena siempre a necedad. Se pueden transmitir los conocimientos pero la sabiduría no.
It was wonderful to be living in a house in a reign of peace, order, tranquility, duty and good conscience, forgiveness and love—but it was no less wonderful to know there was the other, the loud and...
It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,-nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings! (character of Siddhartha, speaking to the Buddh...
I saw that something remained of the fools' play, the death dance of human life, something lasting: works of art. They too will probably perish some day; they'll burn or crumble or be destroyed. Still...
I do want more. I am not content with being happy. I was not made for it. It is not my destiny. My destiny is the opposite.
Hij herinnerde zich dat hij lang geleden ook eens op een morgen zoals nu hier had rondgehangen, de vissen bewonderd had en medelijden met ze gevoeld, hij was toen erg somber geweest; sindsdien was er...
He was pleased with everything that he did and learned and the days and months passed quickly. But he learned more from the river than Vasudeva could teach him. He learned from it continually. Above a...