Quotes on Siddhartha

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

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 everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

And here is a doctrine at which you will laugh. It seems to me, Govinda, that love is the most important thing in the world.

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.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

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 something of value.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.