Quotes About Philologists

It was a dispute of such gravity—linguists and philologists were known to be mercurial and hold eternal grudges—that

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

Philologists assure us that ?ulm in Arabic originally meant "to put something out of its proper place," so that all wrong of any kind is injustice, i.e., an injustice against the agent himself) is, therefore, a very common term in the Qur'?n, with its clear idea that all injustice is basically reflexive.

The word capital, as philologists trace it, comes down to us from a time when wealth was estimated in cattle, and a man's income depended upon the number of head he could keep for their increase.

Since at least the Middle Ages, philosophers and philologists have dreamed of curing natural languages of their flaws by constructing entirely new idioms according to orderly, logical principles.