Siddhartha Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence

  Hermann Hesse

  Reality

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.81, Om Books International

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• Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Inspiring, Wise

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• Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little

  Gautama Buddha

  Thank You, Uplifting, Thankful

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Buddhist, Attitude

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• Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Hatred

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Yoga, Buddhism, Circles

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.17, Om Books International

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• 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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Spiritual, Hate, Hatred

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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• Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Wise, Teacher

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• He lost his Self a thousand times and for days on end he dwelt in non-being. But although the paths took him away from Self, in the end they always led back to it. Although Siddhartha fled from the Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable; the hour was inevitable when he would again find himself in sunshine or in moonlight, in shadow or in rain, and was again Self and Siddhartha, again felt the torment of the onerous life cycle.

  Hermann Hesse

  Rain, Sunshine, Animal

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• "You do not really love me — you love nobody. Is that not true?" "Maybe," said Siddhartha wearily. "I am like you. You cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art? Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can — that is their secret."

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Practice, People

  "Siddhartha".

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• You will become tired, Siddhartha." "I will become tired." "You will fall asleep, Siddhartha." "I will not fall asleep." "You will die, Siddhartha." "I will die.

  Hermann Hesse

  Fall, Tired, Dies

  Hermann Hesse (2005). “Siddhartha: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.18, Prestwick House Inc

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• Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

  Gautama Buddha

  Positive, Happiness, Courage

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• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Struggle, Buddhism

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• When someone seeks," said Siddhartha, "then it easily happens that his eyes see only the thing that he seeks, and he is able to find nothing, to take in nothing because he always thinks only about the thing he is seeking, because he has one goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

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• During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.

  Hermann Hesse

  Past, Perfect, Meditation

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.107, Om Books International

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  We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

  Marcel Proust

  Wise, Wisdom, Im Sorry

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• Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him.

  Hermann Hesse

  Dream, Stars, Night

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.7, Om Books International

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• 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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.106, Om Books International

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.18, Om Books International

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• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Mistake, Past

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• I remember somebody handed me Siddhartha when I was I think 18, and I started to read it and I just really didn't like it, and I left it and it was just gathering dust for years. Then maybe five years later, the world shook as I read it.

  Regina Spektor

  Thinking, Dust, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret.

  Hermann Hesse

  People, Secret Love, Ordinary

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.57, Om Books International

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• 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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Knowledge, Essence

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.18, Om Books International

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• 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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Would Be, Literature, Too Much

  Hermann Hesse (1998). “Siddhartha”

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• 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.

  Hermann Hesse

  Believe, Men, Essence

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.18, Om Books International

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