This private association of mine is a precious possession I would not willingly give up. But the fact that two sensual experiences leap up every time I think, ‘spring is coming’—that fact is my own pe...
One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.
Niente è più odioso dei confini, niente è più stupido.
Ne, nė vienas žmogus ilgai negalėtų pakelti tokio liepsningo gyvenimo. <...> Niekas negalėtų taip ilgai dieną naktį deginti visus savo žiburius, eikvoti visus savo vulkanus, niekas neįstengtų taip ilg...
Narcissus’s thoughts were far more occupied with Goldmund than Goldmund imagined. He wanted the bright boy as a friend. He sensed in him his opposite, his complement; he would have liked to adopt, lea...
Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form... He is much more an experiment and a transition. He is nothing else than the narrow and perilous bridge between nature and spirit.
Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.
Kurrë nuk është një njeri tërësisht i shenjtë apo tërësisht mëkatar. Ne na duket kështu, sepse i jemi nënshtruar mashtrimit, sipas të cilit koha është diçka e vërtetë. Koha nuk është e vërtetë, Govind...
It is good, he thought to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have...
If that was love, with cruelty here and humiliation there, then it was better to live without love.
If I were to reduce all my feelings and their painful conflicts to a single name, I can think of no other word but: dread. It was dread, dread and uncertainty, that I felt in all those hours of shatte...
I hope that you two young scholars may never lack superiors who are less intelligent than you; it is the best cure for pride.
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.
Granted, there is always much that is hidden, and we must not forget that the writing of history - however dryly it is done and however sincere the desire for objectivity - remains literature. History...
For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; an...
Everyone had only one true vocation: to find himself. Let him wind up as a poet or a madman, as a prophet or a criminal—that wasn’t his business; in the long run, it was irrelevant. His business was t...
Everyone can reach his goals, if he is able to think, if he is able to wait, if he is able to fast.
Cine vrea să fie născut trebuie să distrugă o lume
Both the thoughts and the senses were pretty things, the ultimate meaning was hidden behind both of them... from both the secret voices of the innermost truth had to be attentively perceived.
Anyone who has hope is happy