Best 3 quotes of Ernest Klein on MyQuotes

To know the origin of words is to know the cultural history of mankind.

We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself. Therefore, in tracing words to their origins, we are tracing simultaneously civilization and culture to their real roots.

What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.