I can see that your thoughts are deeper than you yourself are able to express. But since this is so, you know, don't you, that you've never lived what you are thinking and that isn't good. Only the id...
I began to sense that I would be a stranger in society for the rest of my life, and the desire was born in me to lead my life outside this society.
How exhausting all this was. In fact, if only people knew how madly tiresome it is to be a criminal...!
How deaf and stupid have I been! he thought, walking swiftly along.When someone reads a text, wants to discover its meaning, he will notscorn the symbols and letters and call them deceptions, coincide...
How I used to love the dark, sad evenings of late autumn and winter, how eagerly I imbibed their moods of loneliness and melancholy when wrapped in my cloak I strode for half the night through rain an...
His goal attracts him, because he doesn't let anything enter his soul which might oppose the goal.
His face was still more clever and spiritual than others, but it seldom smiled, and one after the other it was taking on the traits one so often observes in the faces of the wealthy: that look of diss...
Hikmetini ve içyüzünü öğrenmek istediğim şey, Ben’di. Kurtulmak, alt etmek istediğim şey Ben’di. Ama alt edemedim, sadece yanılttım, sadece kaçtım ondan, sadece saklanıp gizlendim. Doğrusu, dünyada be...
Her little treasure of experiences opened up, and it was larger than she herself would have supposed.
He who travels far will often see things Far removed from what he believed was Truth. When he talks about it in the fields at home, He is often accused of lying, For the obdurate people will not belie...
He looked the blond lion straight in the eye and learned how large and wonderful the wild world was where there are no cages or human beings.
He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.
Having been pondering while slowly walking along, he now stopped as these thoughts caught hold of him, and right away another thought sprang forth from these, a new thought, which was: That I know not...
Haller belongs to those who have been caught between two ages, who are outside of all security and simple acquiescence. He belongs to those whose fate it is to live the whole riddle of human destiny h...
Gândirea noastră este o permanentă abstractizare, o întoarcere a privirii de la simţuri, o încercare de construire a unei lumi pur spirituale. Tu însă îndrăgeşti tocmai ce e mai nestatornic şi muritor...
Generalmente, los animales son tristes. Y cuando un hombre está muy triste, no se debe a que tenga dolor de muelas o haya perdido dinero, sino porque alguna vez por un momento se da cuenta de cómo es...
Floribert could neither sing nor recite these poems because they were without words, but he dreamed and felt them sometimes, especially in the evenings.
Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity.
Everyone who has changed the course of human history, every last one was able to do so only because he was ready for his destiny. That’s true of Moses and the Buddha, Napoleon and Bismarck. The wave t...
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and ne...