Max Müller Quotes

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Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

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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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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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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 princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.

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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?

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

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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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Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

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The man who is free from credulity, but knows the uncreated, who has cut all ties, removed all temptations, renounced all desires, he is the greatest of men.

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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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Whoever knows it also knows that in love there is no More and no Less; but that he who loves can only love with the whole heart, and with the whole soul; with all his strength and with all his will.

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Would an astronomer be an astronomer who did not know the Ptolemaic system of astronomy and had not worked his way through its errors to the truer views of Copernicus?

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If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.

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

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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 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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The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

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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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There is but one way to understand the continuous growth of the human mind and to gain a firm grasp of what it has achieved in any department of knowledge - that is to watch its historical development.

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When the evil deed, after it has become known, brings sorrow to the fool, then it destroys his bright lot, nay, it cleaves his head.

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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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The only knowledge worth having and which lasts us for life must not be cut and dry, but on the contrary must be living and growing knowledge, knowledge of which we know the beginning, the middle, and the end, knowledge of which we can produce the title-deeds whenever they are called for.

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There are certain things which we must know as if they were part of ourselves. But there are many other things which we simply put into our pockets, which we can find there whenever we want them...

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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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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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The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.

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For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

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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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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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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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