Every occupation, plan, and work of man, to be truly successful, must be done under the direction of Christ, in union with his will, from love to him, and in dependence on his power.
—Max Muller
Topics: Christian
Philosophy has been called the knowledge of our knowledge; it might more truly be called the knowledge of our ignorance, or in the language of Kant, the knowledge of the limits of our knowledge.
—Max Muller
Topics: Philosophy
He only shows mankind how beautiful everything is which man’s hand has not yet spoiled or broken.
—Max Muller
No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
—Max Muller
Topics: Happiness
Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
—Max Muller
Topics: Language
Religion is trust, and that trust arose in the beginning from the impressions made on the mind and heart of man by the order and wisdom of nature, and more particularly, by those regularly recurring events, the return of the sun, the revival of the moon, the order of the seasons, the law of cause and effect, gradually discovered in all things, and traced back in the end to a cause of all causes, by whatever name we choose to call it.
—Max Muller
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
Topics: Procrastination
If there is one thing which a comparative study of religions places in the clearest light, it is the inevitable decay to which every religion is exposed. It may seem almost like a truism, that no religion can continue to be what it was during the lifetime of its founder and its first apostles.
—Max Muller
On religions: He who knows one, knows none.
—Max Muller
All the fallacies of human reason had to be exhausted, before the light of a high truth could meet with ready acceptance.”
—Max Muller
Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.
—Max Muller
Topics: Truth
Whenever we can trace back a religion to its first beginnings, we find it free from many of the blemishes that offend us in its later phases. The founders of the ancient religions of the world, as far as we can judge, were minds of a high stamp, full of noble aspirations, yearning for truth, devoted to the welfare of their neighbors, examples of purity and unselfishness. What they desired to found upon earth was but seldom realized, and their sayings, if preserved in their original form, offer often a strange contrast to the practice of those who profess to be their disciples.
—Max Muller
A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
—Max Muller
Without a belief in personal immortality religion is like an arch resting on one pillar, or like a bridge ending in an abyss.
—Max Muller
Topics: Immortality
Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.
—Max Muller
Topics: Christianity
What would the science of language be without missions.
—Max Muller
Topics: Language
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