Many things are still unintelligible to us, and the hieroglyphic language of antiquity records but half of the mind's unconscious intentions. Yet mor… - Friedrich Max Müller

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Many things are still unintelligible to us, and the hieroglyphic language of antiquity records but half of the mind's unconscious intentions. Yet more and more the image of man, in whatever clime we meet him, rises before us, noble and pure from the very beginning; even his errors we learn to understand, even his dreams we begin to interpret. As far as we can trace back the footsteps of man, even on the lowest strata of history, we see the divine gift of a sound and sober intellect belonging to him from the very first, and the idea of a humanity emerging slowly from the depths of an animal brutality can never be maintained again.

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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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Native Name: Max Müller
Alternative Names: Rt. Hon. Friedrich Max Muller F. Max Müller Professor Friedrich Max-Muller F. M. M. Friedrich Maximilian Müller Max Muller

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हमें वेदों से जो भाषा, मिथक, धर्म और दर्शन मिलते हैं, वे अतीत का वातायन खोलते हैं, उसे वर्षों में मापने का साहस कोई नहीं कर सकता। इतना ही नहीं, उनमें सादे, स्वाभाविक, भोला चिन्तन और कई विचार हैं जो हमें आधुनिक लगते

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It is surely astounding that such a system as the Vedanta should have slowly been elaborated by the indefatigable and intrepid thinkers of India thousands of years ago, a system that even now makes us feel giddy as in mounting the last steps of the swaying spire of a Gothic cathedral. None of our philosophers, including Heraclitus, Plato, Kant or Hegel, has ventured to erect such a spire, never frightened by storms or lightning. Stone follows on stone in regular succession after once the first step has been made, after once it has been clearly seen that in the beginning there can have been One, as there will be but One in the end, whether we call it Atman or Brahman.

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