Max Muller
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Language is the autobiography of the human mind.
—Max Muller, quoted in Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Scholar Extraordinary, 1974
Posted on August 17, 1999 at 10:38 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Our poets make poems out of words, but every word, if carefully examined, will turn out to be itself a petrified poem, a reward of a deed done or a thought thought by those to whom we owe the whole of our intellectual inheritance, the capital on which we live, with which we speculate and strive to go richer and richer from day to day.
—Max Muller, The Biographies of Words, 1898
Posted on January 15, 1999 at 8:03 PM
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