“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“When someone seeks,” said Siddhartha, “then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.”
-Siddhartha quotes by Hermann Hesse
“Your soul is the whole world.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“. . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“The river is everywhere.”
-Siddhartha quotes Hermann Hesse
“Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“I can think. I can wait. I can fast.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
“One must find the source within one’s own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking — a detour, an error.”
-Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
