What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change th...
When someone is searching." said Siddhartha, "then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his...
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
—No debe usted entregarse a deseos en los que no cree. Sé lo que desea. Pero tiene que saber renunciar a esos deseos o desearlos de verdad. Cuando llegue a pedir con la plena seguridad de que su deseo...
معالجة التاريخ تعني أن يستسلم الإنسان للفوضي و يحتفظ مع ذلك بإيمان النظام و بمغزي الأشياء. و تلك مهمة جادة جدا أيها الشاب, بل إنها مهمة توشك أن تكون تراجيدية.
شاید غم انگیز باشد اما زیبا هم هست
در آغوش او بودن هم عبادت بود هم گناه
Eternally revolving wheel of avidity and suffering;
Emptied
[O]ver his soul in fleeting waves of happiness, the dreamlike presentiment of a bright earth ruled by the sun began to flicker, an earth on which bright liberated creatures lived in lightness and were...
You've never lived what you are thinking, and that isn't good. Only the ideas we actually live are of any value.
You're free this evening, Barbele. You just don't want to come.
Wie ein schüchternes Mädchen blieb er sitzen und wartet, ob einer käme ihn zu holen, ein Stärkerer und Mutigerer als er, der ihn mitrisse und zum Glücklichsein zwänge.
When you listen to radio you are a witness of the everlasting war between idea and appearance, between time and eternity, between the human and the divine. Exactly, my dear sir, as the radio for ten m...
What are reason and sobriety without the knowledge of intoxication?
Todos los hombres pasan por estas dificultades. Para el hombre medio es éste el punto en que las exigencias de su propia vida entran en colisión dramática con las circunstancias, el punto en que tiene...
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...
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.
There I often walked along the shore, listened to the sea, and thought as I had done in my youth, with amazement and horror, about the sad and senseless confusion of life, that one could love in vain,...
Sí, con todo, sé lo que es el amor, lo sé por ti.