Friedrich Muller Quotes

"May both the layman and he who has left the world think that this is done by me; may they be subject to me in everything which is to be done or is not to be done, thus is the mind of the fool, and his desire and pride increase."

"What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing."

"The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work."

"Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast."

"Those white bones, like gourds thrown away in the autumn, what pleasure is there in looking at them?"

"Not to see what is pleasant is pain, and it is pain to see what is unpleasant."

"They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires."

"Cut off the five (senses), leave the five, rise above the five."

"Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirvâna, the highest happiness."

"Poison does not affect one who has no wound; nor is there evil for one who does not commit evil."

"The evil path and the good path are technical expressions for the descending and ascending scale of worlds through which all beings have to travel upward or downward, according to their deeds."

"A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned."

"Good people walk on whatever befall, the good do not prattle, longing for pleasure."

"Let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!"

"Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom."

"Draw yourself out of the evil way, like an elephant sunk in mud."

"The world gives according to their faith or according to their pleasure: if a man frets about the food and the drink given to others, he will find no rest either by day or by night."

"But there is a taint worse than all taints,--ignorance is the greatest taint."

"He who is earnest and meditative, obtains ample joy."

"The five troubles or evils of the mind are passion, anger, ignorance, arrogance, pride,to anything, rejoice in freedom from attachment, whose appetites have been conquered, and who are full of light, are free (even) in this world."