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"You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are bees!"
"Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things."
"... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'"
"In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided."
"The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike."
"I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war, is my same force that make me sick"
"All this had always been and he had never seen it; he was never present. Now he was present and belonged to it. Through his eyes he saw light and shadows; through his mind he was aware of moon and stars."
"Was that really love? I saw all these passionate people reel about and drift haphazardly as if driven by a storm, the man filled with desire today, satiated on the morrow, loving fiercely and discarding brutally, sure of no affection and happy in no love."
"Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music."
"The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life."
"In any case, the most lively young people become the best old people, not those who pretend to be as wise as grandfathers while they are still at school."
"One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh. Pablo was waiting for me, and Mozart too."
"Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?"
"Love of God is not always the same as love of good."
"The river is everywhere."
"Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate this very hour, and he stopped suffering."
"The opposite of every truth is just as true."
"He saw that the water continually flowed and flowed and yet it was always there; it was always the same and yet every moment it was new."
"We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us."
"Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture."