Top 58 Max Muller Quotes
#1. I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.
Max Muller
#2. Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
Max Muller
#3. Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
Max Muller
#4. Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
Max Muller
#5. There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.
Max Muller
#6. 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.
Max Muller
#8. He only shows mankind how beautiful everything is which man's hand has not yet spoiled or broken.
Friedrich Max Muller
#9. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
Max Muller
#10. It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.
Max Muller
#11. For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.
Max Muller
#12. 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
#13. I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.
Mahatma Gandhi
#14. Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.
Max Muller
#15. It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.
Max Muller
#16. And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.
Max Muller
#17. 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
#18. Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.
Max Muller
#19. The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
Max Muller
#20. There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.
Max Muller
#21. Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.
Max Muller
#22. 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.
Max Muller
#23. No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
Max Muller
#24. If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.
Max Muller
#25. I read with interest Max Muller's book, India - What Can It Teach Us? and the translation of the Upanishads published by the Theosophical Society. All this enhanced my regard for Hinduism, and its beauties began to grow upon me. It did not, however, prejudice me against other religions.
Mahatma Gandhi
#26. I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.
Max Muller
#27. 222. He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins.
Max F. Muller
#28. Thus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads, and a deep sigh swells the breast, which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.
Max Muller
#29. 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.
Max Muller
#30. Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
Max Muller
#31. 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.
Max Muller
#32. 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!
Max Muller
#33. 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
#34. It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.
Max Muller
#35. The morning hour has gold at the mouth.
Max Muller
#36. The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
Max Muller
#37. The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.
Max Muller
#38. When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.
Max Muller
#39. That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.
Max Muller
#40. The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
Max Muller
#41. I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.
Max Muller
#42. Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.
Max Muller
#43. Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?.
Max Muller
#44. Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?
Max Muller
#45. That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
Max Muller
#46. The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.
Max Muller
#47. What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?
Max Muller
#48. He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.
Max Muller
#49. 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.
Max Muller
#50. 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
#51. While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
Max Muller
#52. All the fallacies of human reason had to be exhausted, before the light of a high truth could meet with ready acceptance.
Max Muller
#53. Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
Max Muller
#55. 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
#56. Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will.
Max Muller
#57. Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.
Max Muller
#58. The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.
Max Muller
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