Mathematics, as far as he was concerned, was a Sphinx charged with deceitful puzzles whose cold malicious gaze transfixed her victims, and he gave the monster a wide berth.
Look at a person carefully long enough, and you’ll know more about him than he himself does. The
Like animals we call to each other, was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon.
La moral no me ha procurado nunca nada que no fuera doloroso.
Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.
Knowledge can be conveyed,but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to becarried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressedin words and taught
It was stupid and difficult, it was complicated and exhausting to love in such a way, but it was wonderful. Wonderful was the dark sadness of this love, its folly and hopelessness.
It must be granted that many aspects of the intellectual life of that era showed energy and grandeur. We moderns explain its concomitant uncertainty and falseness as a symptom of the horror which seiz...
It is understandable that there has been a good deal of joking about purely learned works of this type. Their actual value for the future of scholarship and for the people as a whole cannot be demonst...
It is pure fiction that there is no bridge between one person and another, … On the contrary, what people have in common with each other is much more and of greater importance than what each person ha...
It is not a good thing when man overstrains his reason and tries to reduce to rationalorder matters that are not susceptible of rational treatment. Then there arise ideals such as thoseof the American...
In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school.
If a beautiful thing were to remain beautiful for all eternity, I'd be glad, but all the same I'd look at it with a colder eye. I'd say to myself: You can look at it any time, it doesn't have to be to...
IN THE SHADE OF THE house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahm...
I will learn from myself, be my own pupil; I will learn from myself the secret of Siddhartha.
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.
I understood it all. I understood Pablo. I understood Mozart, and somewhere behind me I heard his ghastly laughter. I knew that all the hundred thousand pieces of life's game were in my pocket. A glim...
I suspected that the man was ailing, ailing in the spirit in some way, or in his temperament or character, and I shrank from him with the instinct of the healthy.
I see that you think more than you can express. But, if that’s the case, you must also know that you have never fully lived out your thoughts, and that isn’t good. Only the thoughts that we live out h...
I needed lust, the desire for possessions, vanity, and needed the most shameful despair, in order to learn how to give up all resistance, in order to learn how to love the world, in order to stop comp...