Max Muller Quotes
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The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else.
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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.
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What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.
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He in whom all this is destroyed, and taken out with the very root, he, when freed from hatred and wise, is called respectable.
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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.
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In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I maintain that to everybody who cares for himself for his ancestors for his intellectual development a study of the Vedic literature is indeed indispensable.
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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.
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Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.
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Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss.
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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.
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A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.
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Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
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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.
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An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.
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I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.
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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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Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.
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It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others.
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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.
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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.
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The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.
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A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
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The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
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He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.
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While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
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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?
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He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.
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Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.
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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.
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Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.
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