Be aware of too much wisdom!

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.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

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.

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

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

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.

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

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.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Alas, Siddhartha, I see you suffering, but you're suffering a pain at which one would like to laugh, at which you'll soon laugh for yourself.

A fruit that comes forth is the desire and joy for the labour of a farmer.

Don’t let the mind rule the heart.

Nature does not create works of art. It is we, and the faculty of interpretation peculiar to the human mind, that see art.

Behind their dark glass, the mad own nothing.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.

I never did go back to acting class. I was too busy working.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

I think a philistine environment should be bracing for young artists. You have to make your own enjoyment, you've got to make your own art.

What is not in nature can never be true.