Top 13 Etymological Quotes
#1. All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#2. In ancient Greece, the word for "cook," "butcher," and "priest" was the same - mageiros - and the word shares an etymological root with "magic.
Michael Pollan
#3. A crassly arbitrary method can be avoided only when it is accepted that etymological statements are historical and not authoritative and that semantic statements must be based on the social linguistic consciousness related to usage.
James Barr
#4. risks. Thus we take it for granted that, when a relationship to a special loved person is endangered, we are not only anxious but are usually angry as well. As responses to the risk of loss, anxiety and anger go hand in hand. It is not for nothing that they have the same etymological root.
John Bowlby
#5. . . .legends, which in the etymological sense are what one should pass on, are only the symbols of a tradional truth transported from one generation to the next.
Jean Markale
#6. Every image is in some way a "portrait," not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it pulls and draws (this is the semantic and etymological sense of the word), in that it extracts something, an intimacy, a force.
Sally Mann
#8. In fact, an information theory that leaves out the issue of noise turns out to have no content.
Hans Christian Von Baeyer
#9. Joey described to her the sleek warm neatness of her turds as they slid from her anus and fell into his open mouth, where, since they were only words, they tasted like excellent dark chocolate.
Jonathan Franzen
#10. Hope gives us reasons to live and pursue our dreams, expecting greater possibilities.
Ellen J. Barrier
#11. But if you couldn't do everything, did that mean you did nothing?
Guy Gavriel Kay
#13. There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.
Harry Vardon
