Max MullerThinkers

Aryan (n.) 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.

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

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

Myth (n.) 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.

Religion (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠utterly unable to be said to be known at all if one knows only one.

Sin (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust.