Now let us look to the ancient inhabitants of India. With them, first of all, religion was not only one interest by the side of many. It was the all-… - Friedrich Max Müller

"Thus every evening brought its new conversation, and with each evening, some new phase of her fathomless mind disclosed itself. She kept no secret from me. Her talk was only thinking and feeling aloud, and what she said must have dwelt with her many long years, for she poured out her thoughts as freely as a child that picks its lap full of flowers and then sprinkles them upon the grass. I could not disclose my soul to her as freely as she did to me, and this oppressed and pained me. Yet how few can, with those continual deceptions imposed upon us by society, called manners, politeness, consideration, prudence, and worldly wisdom, which make our entire life a masquerade! How few, even when they would, can regain the complete truth of their existence! Love itself dares not speak its own language and maintain its own silence, but must learn the set phrases of the poet and idealize, sigh and flirt instead of freely greeting, beholding and surrendering itself, I would most gladly have confessed and said to her:
"You know me not," but I found that the words were not wholly true."

दर्शनिक यह मानते हैं कि दु:ख या आतंक के कारण ही सब धर्मों का प्रादुर्भाव हुआ है और यदि बिजली की कड़क और चमक हमें नहीं सिखाते तो हम शायद कभी किसी देवी-देवता को नहीं मानते।

बच्चे जब 6 साल के होते हैं तब उनचास अक्षर और दस हजार संयुक्त अक्षर सीखते हैं और उन्हें सामान्यत: आधे साल में समाप्त कर देते हैं। यह लगभग तीन सौ श्लोकों के बराबर और प्रत्येक श्लोक बत्तीस अक्षरों का होता है। इसे मूल रूप से महेश्वर के द्वारा पढ़ाया गया था। आठ साल में, बच्चे पाणिनि का व्याकरण याद करना प्रारम्भ कर देते हैं और उसे आठ माह में पढ़ लेते हैं। इसमें 1000 श्लोक होते हैं जिन्हें सूत्र कहा जाता है। इसके