To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning..

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills"..

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object..

Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that I did not venture to think of wri….

So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the d….

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live ….

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently..

Life is always frightful. We cannot help it and we are responsible all the same. One's born and at once one is guilty..

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….

Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism..

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into s….

I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea a….

You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live..

Every man's story is important, eternal and sacred. That is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous and worth….

This day will never come again and anyone who fails to eat and drink and taste and smell it will never have it offered to him again in all eternity. ….

Was it not his Self, his small, fearful and proud Self, with which he had wrestled for so many years, but which had always conquered him again, which….

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life..

A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to….

I was given the freedom to discover my own inclination and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as….

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 everywher….

Each man's life represents a road toward himself..