Max Muller Quotes & Sayings

“A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.”

“Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?”

“While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.”

“The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.”

“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.”

“Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?”

“I was shortly again at the castle, and the Princess gave me her hand to kiss and then brought her children, the young princes and princesses, and we played together, as if we had known each other for years.”

“Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!”

“I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.”

“Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.”