Max Muller Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.

  Max Muller

  Art, Philosophy, Men

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.33, Book Tree

• Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.

  Max Muller

  World, Language

• Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

  Max Muller

  Men, Language, Beast

• In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I maintain that to everybody who cares for himself for his ancestors for his intellectual development a study of the Vedic literature is indeed indispensable.

  Max Muller

  Intellectual, Vedas, Who Cares

• I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. In that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.

  Max Muller

  Mean, Eye, Hair

  "Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas". Book by Max Müller, 1888.

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