Max Muller Quotes

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• Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…
• 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…
• The morning hour has gold at the mouth.

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