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.Siddhartha
One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.Siddhartha
I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.Siddhartha
I called the world of appearances an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue chance. Now I have learned that it is not so.Siddhartha
Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.Siddhartha
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends.Siddhartha
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.Siddhartha
It's not my place to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.Siddhartha
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.Siddhartha
What is meditation? What is leaving one's body? What is fasting? What is holding one's breath? It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice-wine.Siddhartha