What is called history at school, and all we learn by heart there about heroes and geniuses and great deeds and fine emotions, is all nothing but a swindle invented by the schoolmasters for educationa...
What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.
Vea: La mayor parte de los hombres no quieren nadar antes de saber. ¿No es esto espiritual? ¡No quieren nadar, naturalmente! Han nacido para la tierra, no, para el agua. Y, naturalmente, no quieren pe...
Todos los hombres están prontos a hacer lo increíble cuando sus ideales peligran; pero cuando se anuncia un nuevo ideal, un nuevo impulso de crecimiento, inquietante y quizá peligroso, todos hurtan el...
This it is, said Siddhartha. And when I had learned it, I looked at my life, and it was also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was only separated from the man Siddhartha and from the old man Siddhartha...
This is what makes them so dear and worthy of veneration for me: they are like me. Therefore, I can love them.
There’s a big difference between merely carrying the world inside you and knowing that you do! A madman can produce ideas that resemble Plato’s, and a pious little schoolboy in a Herrnhut institute ca...
The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is due to one thing, to one single thing--I was afraid of myself, I was fleeing f...
The dream of death is only the dark smokeUnder which the fires of life are burning.
Slowly the disease of the soul, which rich people have, grabbed hold of him.
Siddhartha saw it hurrying, the river, which consisted of him and his loved ones and of all people, he had ever seen, all of these waves and waters were hurrying, suffering, towards goals, many goals,...
Sana dans etmeyi, oyun oynamayı ve gülümsemeyi, ama yine de halinden memnun olmamayı öğreteceğim. Ben de senden düşünmeyi ve bilmeyi, ama yine de halimden memnun olmamayı öğreneceğim. Her ikimiz de şe...
Sadly, I swallowed my tea and stared at the crowd of second-rate elegance...
Pripremi se na borbu, Josefe Knechte, već vidim da je počela.
Pois o que eu odiava mais profundamente e maldizia mais era aquela satisfação, aquela saúde, aquela comodidade, esse otimismo bem cuidado dos cidadãos, essa educação adiposa e saudável do medíocre, do...
Perhaps you yourself have notions about the Glass Bead Game, expecting more of it than it will give you, or perhaps the reverse. There is no doubt that the Game has its dangers. For that very reason w...
Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding? How come?
Perhaps I was mad, as I thought at moments; perhaps I was not like other men? But I was able to do the same things the others did; with little effort and industry I could read Plato, was able to solve...
People like you and me are quite lonely really but we still have each other, we have the secret satisfaction of being different, of rebelling, of desiring the unusual.
One knew nothing. One lived and walked about on the earth or rode through the forests, and so many things looked at one with such challenge and promise, rousing such longing: an evening star, a bluebe...