Once a man takes honesty as his ideal, he cannot confine himself to showing the pleasant and reasonable side of his nature.
Observa bien a un hombre y sabrás de él más que él mismo.
No longer, I want to begin my thoughts and my life with Atman andwith the suffering of the world. I do not want to kill and dissect myselfany longer, to find a secret behind the ruins.
No hay más realidad que la que tenemos dentro. Por eso la mayoría de los seres humanos vive tan irrealmente; porque cree que las imágenes exteriores son la realidad y no permiten a su propio mundo int...
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.
Many people have to change a great deal and wear all sorts of clothes
Like animals we call to each other, was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon.
Knowledge can be expressed, but not wisdom. One can discover it, one can live it, one can be borne along by it, one can do miracles with it, but one cannot express it and teach it.
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
Kamaswami entered, a swiftly, smoothly moving man with very gray hair, with very intelligent, cautious eyes, with a greedy mouth. Politely, the host and the guest greeted one another.
Just slowly, among his growing riches, Siddhartha had assumed something of the childlike people's ways for himself, something of their childlikeness and of their fearfulness. And yet, he envied them,...
Jede Geburt bedeutet Trennung vom All, bedeutet Umgrenzung, Absonderung von Gott, leidvolle Neuwerdung. Rückkehr ins All, Aufhebung der leidvollen Individuation, Gottwerden bedeutet: seine Seele so er...
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 was all the same to him where he would end up; what mattered most was the fact he had finally escaped … and shown … that his will was stronger than mere commands and edicts.
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 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...
If a person were to concentrate all his will power on a certain end, then he would achieve it. That's all.
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...