Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?.

Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and….

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywh….

If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more….

our friendship has no other purpose, no other reason, than to show you how utterly unlike me you are..

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike..

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood..

You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe you….

Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of w….

It is remarkable, all that men can swallow. For a good ten minutes I read a newspaper. I allowed the spirit of an irresponsible man who chews and mun….

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music..

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us..

Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering..

To recognize causes is to think, and through thought alone feelings become knowledge and are not lost, but become real and begin to mature..

Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; e….

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish..

Fortunately, like most children, I had learned what is most valuable, most indispensable for life before school years began, taught by apple trees, b….

Man is not by any means of fixed and enduring form (this, in spite of suspicions to the contrary on the part of their wise men, was the ideal of the ….

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving ….

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do..

A mere nothing suffices — and the lightning strikes..