"Language is the Rubicon that divides man from…" — Max Muller
"Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast."
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53 Quotes by Max Muller
Max Muller has 53 quotes on this site.
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Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
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If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has…
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There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.
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It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more…
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As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and…
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...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which…
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Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or…
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Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves…
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The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.
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Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?.
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For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs…
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It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.
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More Beast Quotes
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one of 880 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
— Aristotle
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and…
— Diane Ackerman
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Men are beasts and even beasts don't behave as they do.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
— Aeschylus
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I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
— Cate Blanchett
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not…
— Daniel Boone
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and…
— Robert Browning
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes…
— A. S. Byatt
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
— A. S. Byatt
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
— Albert Camus
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