Thursday, June 30, 2022

 

A Magic Potion

Friedrich Nietzsche, Homer and Classical Philology, Inaugural Address, University of Basel, May 28, 1869 (tr. John McFarland Kennedy, rev. Jessica N. Berry):
It must be freely admitted that philology is to some extent borrowed from several other sciences, and is mixed together like a magic potion from the strangest liquids, metals, and bones...

Man muß nämlich ehrlich bekennen, daß die Philologie aus mehreren Wissenschaften gewissermaßen geborgt und wie ein Zaubertrank aus den fremdartigsten Säften, Metallen und Knochen zusammengebraut ist...



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