यदि हम यहूदी या सेमेटिक धर्म के हैं, हमारा दर्शन ग्रीक है, हमारी राजनीति रोमन है और यदि हमारी नैतिकता सेक्सन है, तो यह मान लिया जाता है कि ग्रीकों, रोमनों… - Friedrich Max Müller

Whatever the Vedas may be called, they are to us unique and priceless guides in opening before our eyes tombs of thought richer in relics than the royal tombs of Egypt, and more ancient and primitive in thought than the oldest hymns of Babylonian or Accadian poets. If we grant that they belonged to the second millennium before our era, we are probably on safe ground, though we should not forget that this is a constructive date only, and that such a date does not become positive by mere repetition. ... Whatever may be the date of the Vedic hymns, whether 1500 or 15,000 B.C., they have their own unique place and stand by themselves in the literature of the world.

धार्मिक भावनाजन्य नैतिकता अत्यन्त दृढ़ थी। इस कारण मानव किसी भी प्रकार का कोई दुष्कर्म करने से ऐसे हिचकिचाता था,

All one's ideas of Adam and Eve, and the Paradise, and the tower of Babel, and Shem, Ham, and Japhet, with Homer and Aeneas and Virgil too, seemed to be whirling round and round, till at last one picked up the fragments and tried to build a new world, and to live with a new historical consciousness.