Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta.

Max Muller

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The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up. by Max Muller

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.

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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 be laws or customs, primitive art or primitive science, everywhere, you have to go to India, whether you like it or not, because some of the most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India, and in India only.

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The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion... by Max Muller

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

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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 mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.

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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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Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy. by Max Muller

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.

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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 greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.

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Samskrit is the greatest language of the world. by Max Muller

Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.

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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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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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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, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

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He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.

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A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live wit... by Max Muller

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

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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 universities can teach and ought to teach-nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach-something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work.

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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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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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Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?. by Max Muller

Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?.

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Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

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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 turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

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It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool... by Max Muller

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

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