Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

Quotes

• “There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only ...”
• “It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important ...”
• “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... ...”
• “I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that ...”
• “Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melti...”
• “One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.”
• “...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.”
• “Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”
• “I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.”
• “I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”