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-देवत… - Friedrich Max Müller

(325 ई.पू.) और इसलिए उसका सम्पर्क भारत के बन्दरगाहों में आवाजाही करने वाले व्यापारियों से हुआ था, ने उतना ही सही कहा था कि “भारतीय लोग पीट-पीट कर जमाई गई रुई पर पत्र लिखते थे।

"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."

जर्मनी में जो विद्वान संस्कृत का अध्ययन करता है उसके बारे में ऐसा माना जाता है कि वह प्राचीन ज्ञान के गहरे और काले रहस्यों में दीक्षित है,