It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it…

We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than…

— Charles L. Allen

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical, through which…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations of the…

— James Henry Breasted

This is something that Donald Trump has been very effective at exploiting because throughout our history, one of the things that was important to…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece,…

— William Cowper

“If we had enough data then this statistical approach would undoubtedly sort out these things, and a lot of problems are arising precisely because…

— Jennifer K. McArthur

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without…

— Gertrude Stein

“[...] a good interpretation makes sense of such an impressive amount of mutually corroborating data that coincidence must be excluded. Such a result cannot…

— Y. Duhoux

“The study of the form is the betting man's philology, philosophy, science, and literary criticism all rolled into one.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Now didn't I warn you, just a little while ago: arithmetic leads to philology, and philology leads to crime . . .”

— Eugène Ionesco

After attending the gymnasium between my eighth and seventeenth years, I studied classical philology at Berlin University for two years under Boeckh and Lachmann,…

— Paul Heyse

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of…

— W. H. Auden

In Bonn, where I studied for a year, I changed from classical to Romance philology, taught there by its great founder, F. Diez, and…

— Paul Heyse

“[D}o not ask me to choose classical philology over industrial catering when they both seem such powerful fun; I want to be a forensic…

— Evan Dara