Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.

The opposite of every truth is just as true.

Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.

I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

Oh, if I had had a friend at this moment, a friend in an attic room, dreaming by candlelight and with a violin lying ready at his hand! How I should have slipped up to him in his quiet hour, noiselessly climbing the winding stair to take him by surprise, and then with talk and music we should have held heavenly festival throughout the night!