{"quotes":[{"text":"...And the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["hesse","intellect","restlessness","siddhartha","soul"],"id":102037,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"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.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["dreams","hesse","restlessness","siddhartha","soul"],"id":113575,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["hesse","knowledge","siddhartha","unity","world"],"id":117416,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"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.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["hesse","knowledge","learning","self","siddhartha"],"id":142595,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["chain","hesse","siddhartha","world"],"id":196996,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"Siddhartha has one single goal-to become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow-to let the Self die. No longer to be Self, to experience the peace of an emptied heart, to experience pure thought-that was his goal.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["hesse","life","self","siddhartha","thought"],"id":220844,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"In the beauty of countless danseuse in my palace, I saw an endless suffering in the form of distorted and diseased figures as the absolute certainty towards which they were heading even as insects unwittingly consign themselves to the blazing flame.","author":"Ajit Kumar Jha","tags":["buddha","gautam-buddha","siddhartha"],"id":241207,"author_id":"Ajit+Kumar+Jha"},{"text":"Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["buddha","siddhartha","spirituality"],"id":250117,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"Whether it is good or evil, whether life in itself is pain or pleasure, whether it is uncertain-that it may perhaps be this is not important-but the unity of the world, the coherence of all events, the embracing of the big and the small from the same stream, from the same law of cause, of becoming and dying.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["hesse","life","siddhartha","uncertainty","unity"],"id":304318,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"},{"text":"...For you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than force.' Vesadeva to Siddartha.","author":"Hermann Hesse","tags":["buddah","buddhism","monasticism","siddhartha","siddhartha-gautama"],"id":341474,"author_id":"Hermann+Hesse"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}