Quotes by Friedrich Max Muller

“He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise, who, though young and strong, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle man will never find the way to knowledge.”

“Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.”

“Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death”

“In a hamlet or in a forest, in the deep water or on the dry land, wherever venerable persons dwell, that place is delightful.”

“Into whose conquest no one in this world enters, by what track can you lead him, the Awakened, the Omniscient, the trackless?”

“Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus, with thy hand!”

“Silently shall I endure abuse as the elephant in battle endures the arrow sent from the bow: for the world is ill-natured.”

“They lead a tamed elephant to battle, the king mounts a tamed elephant; the tamed is the best among men, he who silently endures abuse.”

“He who overcomes this fierce thirst, difficult to be conquered in this world, sufferings fall off from him, like water-drops from a lotus leaf.”

“A creatures pleasures are extravagant and luxurious; sunk in lust and looking for pleasure, men undergo (again and again) birth and decay.”