74 Quotes by Max Muller

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

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

Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.

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?

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

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.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.

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?