Max Muller Quotes

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• 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.

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  Art, Philosophy, Men

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

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• The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

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  Doe, Persons, Knows

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• A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

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  Men, Hatred, Patient

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.33, Xist Publishing

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• The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.

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  Race, Literature, Chapters

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.107, Book Tree

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• If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.

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  Sky, Mind, Independence

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

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• It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

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  Fool, Companionship, Dhammapada

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.162, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

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  Love, Spring, Filled Up

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

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  Morning, Book, Reading

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• 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.

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  Intellectual, Vedas, Who Cares

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• There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.

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  Book, India, World

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• A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

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  Love, Inspirational, Couple

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confirm our discoveries.

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  Truth, Discovery, Order

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• The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

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  Flower, Men, Wind

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.130, Lulu Press, Inc

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• While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

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  Rivers, Landscape, Remains

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.

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  Desire, Delight, Satisfaction

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.146, Lulu Press, Inc

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• And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India.

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  Race, Order, Perfect

  Max Muller (1999). “India: What Can it Teach Us?”, p.24, Book Tree

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• The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

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  Wise, Mind, Body

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.29, Xist Publishing

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• Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.

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  World, Language

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• Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

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  Men, Language, Beast

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• As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, the pain (of life) will return again and again.

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  Pain, Cutting, Roots

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.164, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

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  Hatred, Victory, Unhappy

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.148, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

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  Children, Stranger, Cease

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

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  Pain, Body, Disease

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• How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

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  Beautiful, Thinking, May

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.

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  Bridges, Arches, Pillars

  "Chips from a German Workshop, Volume I: Essays on the Science of Religion". Book by Max Müller, p. 45, 1867.

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