Friedrich Max Muller Quotes

#1. On religions: He who knows one, knows none.

Friedrich Max Muller

#2. He only shows mankind how beautiful everything is which man's hand has not yet spoiled or broken.

Friedrich Max Muller

#3. These sons belong me, and this wealth belongs me," with such thoughts the fool is tormented. He himself does not belong to himself; how much less sons and wealth?

Friedrich Max Muller

#4. What does Yagwavalkya say?
'It is not our hermitage,' he says - our religion ,we might say - 'still less the colour of our skin, that produces virtue ; virtue must be practised. Therefore let no one do to others what he would not have done to himself.

Friedrich Max Muller

#5. He who seeks beauty will eventually find it, and discover that the Persians are not entirely deceived in their Hafiz, nor the Hindoos in their Kalidasa.

Friedrich Max Muller

#6. Is not a dew-drop on a blade of grass more beautiful than a pearl set in gold? Is not a living spring, which gushes up before us, we know not whence, more beautiful than all the fountains of Versailles?

Friedrich Max Muller

#7. On religions and viewpoints: He who knows one, knows none.

Friedrich Max Muller

#8. Truthfulness is a luxury, perhaps the greatest, and let me assure you, the most expensive luxury in our life - and happy the man who has been able to enjoy it from his very child hood.

Friedrich Max Muller