Max Müller

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June 23, 2020

Name: Max Müller
Born: 12/06/1823
Died: 10/28/1900 (76 years old)
Occupation: Writer, scholar

Friedrich Max Müller (German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈmaks ˈmʏlɐ]; 6 December 1823– 28 October 1900) 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 Study of religions (science of religion, Religionswissenschaft). 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 a Turanian family of languages.

Birth Name: Friedrich Max Müller

Birth Place: Dessau, Duchy of Anhalt, German Confederation

Death Place: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Source: Wikipedia

Max Müller quotes :

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

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
Max Muller

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.
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

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
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The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
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That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
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