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• I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. In that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.

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  Mean, Eye, Hair

  "Biographies of Words and the Home of the Aryas". Book by Max Müller, 1888.

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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.

  Max Muller

  Exercise, Faults, Quiet

  F. Max Muller (2014). “The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata”, p.39, Routledge

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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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  Bridges, Arches, Pillars

  "Chips from a German Workshop, Volume I: Essays on the Science of Religion". Book by Max Müller, p. 45, 1867.

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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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  Pain, Body, Disease

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• The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is the root of their religion, and to show them what the root is, I feel sure, is the only way of uprooting all that has sprung from it during the last 3000 years.

  Max Muller

  Country, Fate, Years

  "The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller" edited by Georgina Müller, 1902.

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• All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.

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  Perseverance, Real, Book

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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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  Dark, Men, Feelings

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

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  Children, Men, False Gods

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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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  Reflection, Reality, Fire

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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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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  Crush, Self, Precious Stones

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.23, Xist Publishing

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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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  Church, Missionary, Band

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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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  Real, Origin Of Life, True Joy

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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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  Pain, Hatred, Wish

  Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.158, Lulu Press, Inc

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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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  Heart, Soul, Whole

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• I know well there is no comfort for this pain of parting. The wound always remains, but one learns to bear the pain, and learns to thank God for what he gave. For the beautiful memories of the past, and the yet more beautiful hope for the future.

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  Beautiful, Death, Pain

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• 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

  Buddhist, Kings, Book

  "The Life and Letters of Right Honorable Friedrich Max Müller" edited by Georgina Müller, Vol. II, Ch. XXXII, 1902.

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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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  World, Christianity, Sincerity

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 288, 1895.

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• The morning hour has gold at the mouth.

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  Morning, Gold, Mouths

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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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  Long, Soul, Secret

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Even a good man sees evil days, as long as his good deed has not ripened; but when his good deed has ripened, then does the good man see happy days.

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  Men, Long, Evil

  F. Max Muller (2016). “The Dhammapada”, p.18, Xist Publishing

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• I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

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  Stars, Believe, Saws

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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• Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

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  Opposites, House, Church

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• 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.

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  Buddhist, Philosophy, Moral

  F. Max Muller (2014). “The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata”, p.58, Routledge

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• The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

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  Evil, Suffering, Doers

  F. Max Muller (2014). “The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata”, p.7, Routledge

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

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  Childhood, Secret, Fatherhood

  Max Muller (1912). “Memories”

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