“Siddhartha learned a great deal from the Samanas; he learned many ways of losing the Self. He traveled along the path of self-denial through pain, through voluntary suffering and conquering of pain, through hunger, thirst and fatigue. He traveled the way of self-denial through meditation, through the emptying of the mind through all images. Along these and other paths did he learn to travel. 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.” Siddhartha

To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her. The Karamazov Brothers

Often the best in us springs from the worst in us. Reflections on Literature and Morality

People ought to fight to keep their law as to defend the citys walls. Fragments