#hesse

"A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth."

"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge-that is everywhere, that is Atman, that is in me and you and in every creature, and I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the man of knowledge, than learning."

"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."

"...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still."

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

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