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 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.
Sobre eso, pequeña Lena, todos los sabios y santos se han quebrado la cabeza.No hay dicha que perdure.
Slower, he walked along in his thoughts and asked himself: But what is this, what you have sought to learn from teachings and from teachers, and what they, who have taught you much, were still unable...
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.
Siddhartha considered his circumstances. Thinking did not come easily to him. He didn't really feel like it, but he forced himself.
She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.
Schön war die Welt, wenn man sie so betrachtete, so ohne Suchen, so einfach, so kinderhaft.
Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.
Quería tan sólo intentar vivir aquello que tendía a brotar espontáneamente de mí ¿Porqué había de serme tan difícil?
Quero hoje dizer-te uma coisa, algo que já sei há bastante tempo, e que também tu já sabes, mas talvez ainda não o tenhas dito a ti mesmo. Dir-te-ei agora aquilo que sei a respeito de mim, de ti e do...
Perhaps it is this which keeps you from findingpeace, perhaps it is the many words
Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.