A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned. Max Muller More Quotes by Max Muller More Quotes From Max Muller 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? Max Muller reflection fire reality 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 have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts. Max Muller forgotten together memories 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 may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity! Max Muller may beautiful thinking 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. Max Muller progress caring years Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love? Max Muller mother father children I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time. Max Muller saws stars believe 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. Max Muller soul home reality The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone. Max Muller precious-stones crush self For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse. Max Muller horse lord self It smote me to the heart that I had found no one in all the world who loved me more than all others. Max Muller found heart world Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? Max Muller butterfly sin dust The morning hour has gold at the mouth. Max Muller gold mouths morning The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled. Max Muller body wise mind Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. Max Muller feelings memories years 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 it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light. Max Muller bud light soul Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast. Max Muller beast language men There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man. Max Muller false-gods men children And if I were to ask myself from what literature we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of the Semitic race, the Jewish, may draw the corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly human a life... again I should point to India. Max Muller race perfect order To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy. Max Muller buddhist moral philosophy 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. Max Muller vedas who-cares intellectual
