Philological Quotes
9 quotes by 8 authors
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My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,…
— Mark Twain
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I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is…
— Hermann von Helmholtz
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In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance,…
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then the poetic poetry?
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism'…
— Terry Jones
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If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked…
— C.S. Lewis
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In my work I now have the comfortable feeling that I am so to speak on my own ground and territory and almost certainly not…
— Heinrich Hertz
Who Wrote These Philological Quotes
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