Max Muller

In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as…

— Max Muller

Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

— Max Muller

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with…

— Max Muller

The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of…

— Max Muller

The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own…

— Max Muller

I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I…

— Max Muller

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

— Max Muller

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a…

— Max Muller

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are…

— Max Muller

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy…

— Max Muller

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure…

— Max Muller

It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all…

— Max Muller

Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only…

— Max Muller

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

— Max Muller

When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it…

— Max Muller

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling.…

— Max Muller

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in…

— Max Muller

I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I…

— Max Muller

The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires,…

— Max Muller

“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply…

— Max Müller

I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the…

— Max Muller

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

— Max Muller

He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all…

— Max Muller

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

— Max Muller

And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks…

— Max Muller