Year/etymology

Famous quotes containing the words year and/or etymology:

    “Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.”
    —E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)

    “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)