Quotes About Max muller

To me this technical acceptation seems not applicable here, where we have to deal with the simplest moral precepts, and not with psychological niceties of Buddhist philosophy.

Max Müller took advantage of the new insights of his time into the IE languages and attempted to explain the development of Greek mythology, not by questioning the facts but by analyzing the language used in mythology. His main point was that mythology arose because people misunderstood poetic language used in the admiration of nature and interpreted it as narrative language about divine beings.

Although Adalbert Kuhn was an important early adherent of nature mythology, the person most closely associated with it today is Max Müller, a German Indo-Europeanist resident in England who was widely read and very influential for the entire second half of the nineteenth century.

The indiscriminate aligning of narrative elements to natural phenomena led to the eventual discrediting of comparative mythology, not least when Andrew Lang, a critic of Max Müller, demonstrated that Müller himself was a solar myth.

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

No people, ancient or modern," said Max Müller, "has given women so high a legal status as did the inhabitants of the Nile Valley."97