Max Muller
Max Muller
Friedrich Max Müller, generally known as Max Müller, was a German-born philologist and Orientalist, who lived and studied in Britain for most of his life. He was one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion. Müller wrote both scholarly and popular works on the subject of Indology. The Sacred Books of the East, a 50-volume set of English translations, was prepared under his direction. He also promoted the idea of...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth6 December 1823
CountryGermany
For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.
It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.
The wise who control their body, who control their tongue, the wise who control their mind, are indeed well controlled.
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!
Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.
There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads.
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.
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
...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...
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.
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.
Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy.
The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.