Veil/etymology

Famous quotes containing the words veil and/or etymology:

    Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    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)