Siddhartha

Here are all of my favorite quotes from Siddhartha thus far:

1."...but was there value in knowing everything if one did not know the one and only thing, the single most important thing, the only thing that matters?" - p7

2."Your soul is the entire world." - p7

3."And so I am starting to believe: this knowledge has no worse enemy than the desire to know, than learning." - p17

4."It is not my place to judge the life of another! Only for myself, for myself alone must I judge, must I choose, must I decline." - p30

5."Now he was only Siddhartha, the one who had awakened, nothing more. Deeply he drew in his breath and for a moment he froze and stood shuddering. No one was as alone as he." - p36

6."The world was beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moon and stars were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust." - p39

7."...he had not been present. Now he was present, he belonged there. Through his eyes coursed light and shadow, through his heart stars and moon." - p40

8."All are obsequious, all would like to be friends, to obey, to think as little as possible. People are children." - p42

9."Most people...are like falling leaves, which blow and turn in the air, and stagger and tumble to the ground. But others, fewer, are like stars, they travel in a fixed orbit, no wind reaches them, in themselves they have their law and their course." - p59

10."I am like you. You do not love either--how could you practice love as an art otherwise? People of our kind may not be able to love. Child people can love; that is their secret." - p60

11."...he recognized himself in his misery and in his error." - p70

12."Where else may my path still lead me? Ridiculous is this path, it loops around, it may even go in circles. May it go where it will, wherever it goes I will follow." - p76

I don't want to get too reflective just yet, but i must point out that I am a fan of quotes 1, 9, and 12.