Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
And some day there will be nothing left of everything that has twisted my life and grieved it and filled me so often with such anguish. Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come and the motherly earth will gather me back home. It won't be the end of things, only a way of being born again, a bathing and a slumbering where the old and the withered sink down, where the young and new begin to breathe. Then, with other thoughts, I will walk along streets like these, and listen to streams, and overhear what the sky says in the evening, over and over and over.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.
It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.
The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.
Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.
Only the ideas that we really live have any value.
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.
When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.
Love of God is not always the same as love of good.
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
He was taught by the river. Incessantly, he learned from it. Most of all, he learned from it to listen, to pay close attention with a quiet heart, with a waiting, opened soul, without passion, without a wish, without judgement, without an opinion.
The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.
Good that you ask. You should always ask, always have doubts.
Each man's life represents a road toward himself.
How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.
Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...
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