Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light.
Interpretation
This quote expresses the idea that one's inner potential is often hidden and requires external factors, like enlightenment or inspiration, to be fully realized.
Max Muller's quote reflects a profound realization about the richness of the human soul. It suggests that individuals often underestimate their inner wealth and potential. The metaphor of the sun symbolizes enlightenment or inspiration that can awaken and nurture the dormant aspects of one's character and abilities, much like how sunlight encourages plants to grow and flourish.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire personal growth and self-realization.
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?
Our government rests upon religion. It is from that source that we derive our reverance for truth and justice, for equality and liberty, and for the rights of mankind. Unless the people believe in these principles they cannot believe in our government.
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
Go, speed the stars of Thought On to their shining goals; - The sower scatters broad his seed, The wheat thou strew'st be souls.
Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.
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