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Max Muller

6 December 1823-28 October 1900

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Aryan is neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull but those who speak an aryan language. The blackest hindus represent an earlier stage of aryan speech and thought than the fairest scandinavians and an ethnologist who speaks of aryan race, aryan blood, aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist.

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Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world... a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.

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Language was originally an attempt to synchronize muscular effort resulting in sounds of rhythmic labor such as heave-ho, heave-ho alternating with sounds.

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Language was originally an echo by man of the vibrating natural resonance in all things.

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Language was originally emotional interjections and exclamations triggered by pain, pleasure, surprise, etc.

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Language was originally imitations of the cries of beasts and birds. The bow-wow theory (attributed to herder).

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Learned is not the man who talks much but the man who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

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Myth is a disease of language, a grammatical confusion whereby, on the one hand, a God with several names was taken to be multiple different figures, and on the other, multiple Gods were mistaken as being a singular God.

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Religion is utterly unable to be said to be known at all if one knows only one.

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Sin is that which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust.