I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Bodh Gaya is a land of enlightenment. Years ago, what Bodh Gaya got was Siddhartha but what Bodh Gaya gave to the… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“Ephemeral, highly ephemeral is the world of formations; ephemeral, highly ephemeral are our clothes and hairstyles, and our hair and our bodies… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“When someone is searching then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see is that what he searches… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Once you know it, you move as a nonbeing. Nobody can make you angry, nobody can make you happy, unhappy, miserable. No!… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“And when I had learned it, I looked at my life, and it was also a river, and the boy Siddhartha was… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“Having been pondering while slowly walking along, he now stopped as these thoughts caught hold of him, and right away another thought… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The reason why I do not know anything about myself, the reason why Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to myself is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In the mango grove, shade poured into his black eyes, when playing as a boy, when his mother sang, when the sacred… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“How deaf and stupid have I been!" he thought, walking swiftly along. "When someone reads a text, wants to discover its meaning,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“But there is one thing which these so clear, these so venerable teachings do not contain: they do not contain the mystery… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering. — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
