Max Muller Quotes

Max Muller

German Educator

Born: Dec 6, 1823

Died: Oct 28, 1900

First Heart Light Me Soul Time

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Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? Max Muller

Dust Worm Chrysalis Sin Makes Which Butterfly

I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years. 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

Alone Dark Men Feeling All-Around Rises Feel Know Around Pass Left Forgotten Then Us Grows Right Utterly

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? Max Muller

Reality Light Reflection Fire Sun Though Only Divine Almost Like Without Glow Still Were Itself Might Ask Creator Creature

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

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child. Max Muller

Strangers Soon Learns Ceases Child

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. Max Muller

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