I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time. Hermann Hesse
How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads?
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Plato
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.
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John Berry
The Encyclopedia--the advance artillery of reason, the armada of philosophy, the siege engine of the enlightenment...
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Peter Prange
Philosophy cannot be extinguished, though men will try ... The spirit seeks the light, that is its nature. It wishes to return to its origin, and must forever try to reach enlightenment.
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Iain Pears
Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained.
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Kim Chestney
More Quotes By Hermann Hesse
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.
It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the...
Love must not entreat, ' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.
