Famous quotes containing the words spirit and/or etymology:
“For the most part, the best man’s spirit makes a fearful sprite to haunt his grave.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.”
—Giambattista Vico (1688–1744)
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