When a person seeks, Siddhartha said, it can easily happen that his eye sees only the thing he is seeking; he is incapable of finding anything, of allowing anything to enter into him, because he is al...
Welcher Vater, welcher Lehrer hat ihn davor schützen können, selbst das Leben zu leben, selbst sich mit dem Leben zu beschmutzen, selbst Schuld auf sich zu laden, selbst den bitteren Trank zu trinken,...
Was it not a comedy, a strange and stupid matter, this repetition, this running around in a fateful circle?
Two thirds of my countrymen read this kind of newspaper, read things written in this tone every morning and every night, are every day worked up and admonished and incited, and robbed of their peace o...
Thoughts and sorrows seem to have remained on the other side of the mountains. Between tormented men and hateful deeds, a person has to think and sorrow so much! Back there it is so difficult and so d...
Then it seems that I, who wanted to watch over you, fell asleep myself.
The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means...
The purpose and the essential properties were not somewhere behind the things, they were in them, in everything.
The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas.
Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act.
Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiseless...
Oh oak tree, how they have pruned you. Now you stand odd and strangely shaped!You were hacked a hundred timesuntil you had nothing left but spite and will!I am like you, so many insults and humiliatio...
Obeying is like eating and drinking. There's nothing like it if you've been without it for too long.
Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.
No soy un hombre que sabe. He sido un hombre que busca y lo soy aún, pero no busco ya en las estrellas ni en los libros: comienzo a escuchar las enseñanzas que mi sangre murmura en mí.
Mancher wird niemals Mensch, bleibt Frosch, bleibt Eidechse, bleibt Ameise. Mancher ist oben Mensch und unten Fisch. Aber jeder ist ein Wurf der Natur nach dem Menschen hin. Und allen sind die Herkünf...
Like a wallflower he stayed in the background waiting for someone to fetch him, someone more courageous and stronger than himself to tear him away and force him into happiness.
L'existence humaine ne devient une véritable souffrance, un enfer que lorsque deux époques, deux cultures, deux religions interfèrent l'une avec l'autre.
Kai žmogus ieško, tada lengvai atsitinka, kad jo akys mato tik tą dalyką, kurio ieško, ir jis nieko kito neįstengia pastebėti ar suvokti, nes visą laiką galvoja tik apie ieškomą daiktą - jis turi tiks...