I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace, to hear Om again, to sleep deeply again and to awaken refreshed again. I...
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.
He would like either to overcome the wolf and become wholly man or to renounce mankind and at last to live wholly a wolf's life. It may be presumed that he has never carefully watched a real wolf. Had...
For much longer, he could have stayed with Kamaswami, made money, wasted money, filled his stomach, and let his soul die of thirst; for much longer he could have lived in this soft, well upholstered h...
Even souls that are intensely alive will soon age and grow weary of this bustling, frenetic, satiated life.
Dass der Schüler sein Glück nur im Traum erlebt hat, ist gewiß keine Abschwächung, denn die meisten Menschen erleben ihre Träume viel heftiger als ihr Leben.
But stronger than his knowledge was his love for the boy, his devotion, his fear of losing him. Had he ever lost his heart to anybody so completely, so painfully, so hopelessly and yet so happily?
But I am thinking now of your favorite of whom you have talked to me sometimes, and read me, too, some of his letters, of Mozart. How was it with him in his day? Who controlled things in his times and...
A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new
The opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and put into words when it is one-sided. Everything that can be thought with the mind and said with words i...
Did you," so he asked him at one time, "did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is no time?"Vasudeva's face was filled with a bright smile."Yes, Siddhartha," he spoke. "It is this wha...
But if you were to die ten times for him, you would not alter his destiny in the slightest
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
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...
What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
– И это тоже хорошо, очень хорошо, – сказал он, – послушайте-ка: «Надо бы гордиться болью, всякая боль есть память о нашем высоком назначении». Прекрасно! За восемьдесят лет до Нищие! Но это не то изр...
يجب الا تستسلم للرغبات التي لا تؤمن بها . انا اعرف ما ترغب به ، و لكن عليك اما ان تتمكن من التخلي عن هذه الرغبات او ان تجد نفسك مبررا تماما عند تحقيقها. و عندما تتمكن من صياغة طلبك بحيث تكون واثقا من...
هیچ چیز در جهان برای بشر ناگوارتر از طی مسیری نیست که به ضمیر او راه می یابد