Nefret ettiğim iki şey arasında seçim yapmak zorundayım - ya aklımın tiksindiği düşleri seçeceğim ya da duyularımı dehşete düşüren eylemi; başka bir deyişle, hamurumda hissedemediğim eylem ya da şimdi...
My soul breathed once more. My eyes were opened. There were moments when I felt with a glow that I had only to snatch up my scattered images and raise my life as Harry Haller and as the Steppenwolf to...
My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
My dear Sinclair, he said slowly, I didn't intend to tell you anything disagreeable. Besides - neither of us knows why you happen to be drinking wine at this moment. That which is within you and direc...
Mountains at NightThe lake has died down,The reed, black in its sleep,Whispers in a dream.Expanding immensely into the countryside, The mountains loom, outspread.They are not resting.They breathe deep...
Mit der Reife wird man immer jünger. Es geht auch mir so, obwohl das wenig sagen will, da ich das Lebensgefühl meiner Knabenjahre im Grund stets beibehalten habe und mein Erwachsensein und Altern imme...
Mas o que era isso que querias aprender com doutrinas e com mestres e que eles, que tanto te ensinaram, não te podiam ensinar?E compreendeu: Era o Eu, cujo sentido e natureza eu queria conhecer. Era o...
Many verses of the holy books, above all the Upanishads of Sama-Veda spoke of this innermost thing. It is written: Your soul is the whole world. It says that when a man is asleep, he penetrates his in...
L’époque et le monde, l’argent et le pouvoir, appartiennent aux être médiocres et fades. Quant aux autres, aux êtres véritables, ils ne possèdent rien, si ce n’est la liberté de mourir. Il en fut ains...
Light the Christmas candles for your children! Let them sing carols! But don't delude yourselves, don't content yourselves year after year with the shabby, pathetic, sentimental feeling you have when...
La gente estará entusiasmada, todos están deseando empezar a matar. Tan insípida les resulta la vida.
L'intelligence aime ce qui est fixe, ce qui a forme; elle veut pouvoir se fier à ses signes, elle aime ce qui est, non ce qui est en devenir; le réel, non le possible. Elle ne tolère pas qu'un oméga d...
Knulp was right in doing what his nature demanded and what few others could do, in speaking to strangers like a child and winning their hearts, in saying pleasant things to ladies of all ages, and mak...
Jos olisin muusikko, voisin vaikeuksitta kirjoittaa kaksiäänisen melodian, melodian, joka muodostuu kahdesta linjasta, kahdesta sävel- ja nuottirivistä, jotka vastaavat toisiaan, täydentävät toisiaan,...
Ja, man muß seinen Traum finden, dann wird der Weg leicht. Aber es gibt keinen immerwährenden Traum, jeden löst ein neuer ab, und keinen darf man festhalten wollen.
It’s so good to know that inside us there’s a self that knows everything!
It would be wholly impossible for me to say whether this cloudy, silently disturbed, unraveled sky is mirrored in my soul or the reverse, whether or not I read the image of my own inner life in this s...
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.
In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats,
In the mango grove, shade poured into his black eyes, when playing as a boy, when his mother sang, when the sacred offerings were made, when his father, the scholar, taught him, when the wise men talk...