Philological Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Philological Quotes as follows:

• 2 Philological Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1 Philological Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz
• 1 Philological Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure
• 1 Philological Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
• 1 Philological Quote by Terry Jones
• 1 Philological Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Philological Quote by Heinrich Hertz
• 1 Philological Quote by Mark Twain