Max Muller Quotes

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• Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
• 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…
• There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.
• It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.
• 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…
• Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
• ...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought…
• 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…
• 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…
• The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
• Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?.
• For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.
• It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.
• The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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.
• 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.
• Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.
• Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does…

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