Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

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.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

Faith is stronger than so-called reality.