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Fishes never fly, and cats never catch frogs. These are the difficulties into which we are led ; and they arise simply and solely from our using word… - Friedrich Max Müller
" "Fishes never fly, and cats never catch frogs. These are the difficulties into which we are led ; and they arise simply and solely from our using words for their sound rather than for their meaning. We begin by playing with words, but in the end the words will play with us.
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About Friedrich Max Müller
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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ये लोग पृथ्वी पर अपना संक्षिप्त जीवन जी रहे थे, जहाँ ज्यादा धक्कामुक्की और भीड़ नहीं थी और एक दूसरे को कुचल नहीं रहे थे, जहाँ वसन्त, ग्रीष्म और शीत ऋतुएँ हर साल आती थीं और उदय और अस्त होता हुआ सूर्य उनके प्रिय चरागाहों और कुंजों से उनके चिन्तन को पूर्व की उस दुनिया की ओर ले जाता था जहाँ से वे आए थे, या पश्चिम की उस दुनिया को ले जा रहा था जहाँ वे तेजी से जा रहे थे। उनके पास एक धर्म था, जो बहुत सादा था और शायद ही उसने अब तक धर्म का रूप लिया था। वे यही अनुभव करते थे और जानते थे कि ‘एक अनन्त है’।
He must be a man of little faith, who would fear to subject his own religion to the same critical tests to which the historian subjects all other religions. We need not surely crave a tender or merciful treatment for that faith which we hold to be the only true one. We should rather challenge it for the severest tests and trials, as the sailor would for the good ship to which he trusts his own life, and the lives of those who are dear to him. In the Science of Religion, we can decline no comparisons, nor claim any immunities for Christianity, as little as the missionary can, when wrestling with the subtle Brahmin, or the fanatical Mussulman, or the plain speaking Zulu.
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