Siddhartha Quotes

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

...the opposite of every truth is just as true! That is to say, any truth can only be expressed and ...

Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that...

Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure ...

And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his ...

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There ...

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

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, ...

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

...for you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force....

Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm...

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

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman.

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his hear...

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

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.