Toda especie humana tiene sus caracteres, sus sellos, cada una tiene sus virtudes y sus vicios, cada una, su pecado mortal.
Though he was near perfection and was bearing his final wound, it still seemed to him as if those childlike people were his brothers, their vanities, desires for possession, and ridiculous aspects wer...
This too I have learned from the river: Everything returns!
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.
There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which I enjoyed with my parents, my childish affections and carefree, irresponsible exis...
There are few people who know how to listen and I have not met anybody who can do so like you.
The source ran somewhere, far away from him, ran and ran invisibly, had nothing to do with his life any more. And at several times he suddenly became scared on account of such thoughts and wished that...
The realms of day and night. Two different worlds coming from two opposite poles mingled during this time.
The realization of what wisdom actually was slowly blossomed and ripened in Siddhartha—and he discovered what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a...
The horrors of the Middle Ages were really nonexistent. A man of the Middle Ages would detest the whole mode of our present-day life as something far more than horrible, far more than barbarous. Every...
The dream of death is only the dark smokeUnder which the fires of life are burning.
The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atla...
The bird is fighting its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wishes to be born must destroy a world. The bird is flying to God. The god is named Abraxas. After
The artistically inclined delight in the Game because it provides opportunities for improvisation and fantasy. The strict scholars and scientists despise it – and so do some musicians also – because,...
That I know nothing about myself, that Siddhartha has remained thus alien and unknown to me, stems from one cause, a single cause: I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself! I searched Atman,...
Te cunosc, suflet temător, nimic nu ţi-e de mai mare trebuinţă, nimic nu-ţi potoleşte mai bine foamea şi setea şi nevoia de somn decât întoarcerea acasă, la începuturile tale.
Surgió la idea peligrosa y terrible de que tal vez toda la vida humana no sea más que un grave error, un aborto violento y fallido de la madre primigenia, un intento salvaje y espantosamente fracasado...
Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it.
Sitä mikä ihmisillä on yhteistä on paljon enemmän ja se on tärkeämpää kuin se mitä kullakin on vain itselleen ja mikä erottaa hänet muista.
Siempre es difícil nacer. El pájaro tiene que penar para salir del cascarón.