Philology Quotes

• A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Race, Culture, Genius

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1980). “An Anthology”

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• Filólogos, que persiguen Una sílaba pictórica a través del tiempo y el espacio Empiezan en casa, y la cazan en la oscuridad, A la Galia, a Grecia, y al Arca de Noé.

  William Cowper

  Hogar, Oscuridad, Espacio

  "Jubilación" l. 691 (1782)

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• A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

  Gertrude Stein

  Plato, Philosophy, Psychology

  "Voices: A Memoir". Book by Frederic Prokosch, 1983.

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• It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Aspect, Trifles, Concern

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• This is something that Donald Trump has been very effective at exploiting because throughout our history, one of the things that was important to galvanize the country against a perceived threat has been philology.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Country, Important, Trump

  Fuente: www.npr.org

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• Los cursos de prosodia, retórica y filología comparada serían obligatorios para todos los estudiantes, y cada alumno tendría que elegir tres cursos entre los de matemáticas, historia natural, geología, meteorología, arqueología, mitología, liturgia y cocina.

  W. H. Auden

  Cooking, Meteorology, Would Be

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• La cuidadosa erudición del dedicado micófilo aficionado R. Gordon Wasson se lee como una apasionante historia de detectives científicos. Además, su voluntad de proseguir la búsqueda a través del amplio abanico de la lingüística, la arqueología, el folclore, la filología, la etnobotánica, la ecología vegetal, la fisiología humana y la prehistoria constituye una lección objetiva para todos los estudiantes profesionales holísticos del hombre.

  Weston La Barre

  Hombres, Historias, Misiones

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