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Knowledge which has no object beyond itself is, in most cases, but a pretext for vanity. It is so easy, even for the most superficial scholar, to bri… - Friedrich Max Müller
" "Knowledge which has no object beyond itself is, in most cases, but a pretext for vanity. It is so easy, even for the most superficial scholar, to bring together a vast mass of information, bearing more or less remotely on questions of no importance whatsoever. The test of a true scholar is to be able to find out what is really important, to state with precision and clearness the results of long and tedious researches, and to suppress altogether lucubrations, which, though they might display the laboriousness of the writer, would but encumber his subject with needless difficulty.
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Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900), more commonly known as Max Müller (or Mueller), was a German philologist and Orientalist, who was a major pioneer of the discipline of comparative religion.
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Rt. Hon. Friedrich Max Muller
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श्लोकों में वरुण को आदित्य अर्थात् अदिति का पुत्र कहा गया है। ‘अदिति’ शब्द का अर्थ है जो कभी खंडित या नष्ट न हो, तथा जो बन्धनहीन एवं अनन्त हो। स्वयं वेद में भी यदा-कदा अदिति की प्रार्थना परा कहकर की गई है। अर्थात अदिति वस्तुत: पृथ्वी, आकाश तथा सूर्य और उषा आदि सबसे परे है। धार्मिक चिन्तन के उस आदिम युग में एक दिव्य शक्ति की इस रूप में मान्यता वस्तुत: आश्चर्यजनक है। वेदों में हमें अदिति की अपेक्षा भी कहीं अधिक ‘आदित्यों’ का वर्णन मिलता है जिसका शब्दिक अर्थ है अदिति के पुत्र या दृश्य पृथ्वी और अन्तरिक्ष से अप्रकट और एक अर्थ में अनन्त हैं।
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I maintain then that for a study of man, or, if you like, for a study of Aryan humanity, there is nothing in the world equal in importance with the Veda. I maintain that to everybody who cares for himself, for his ancestors, for his history, or for his intellectual development, a study of Vedic literature is indispensable; and that, as an element of liberal education, it is far more important and far more improving than the reigns of Babylonian and Persian kings.
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