Ferdinand de SaussureNearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.371Humanity
Ferdinand de SaussureHenceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.334Death
Ferdinand de SaussureAny psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of … ▶312Sadness
Ferdinand de SaussureWithout language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula. ✨ Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). Course in General Linguistics, p.112, Columbia University Press336Thought
Ferdinand de SaussureThe connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.3710Reading
Ferdinand de SaussurePsychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass. ✨ Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). Course in General Lingui… ▶317Thought
Ferdinand de SaussureWithin speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.306Sadness
Ferdinand de SaussureA linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas... ✨ Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure, edited by… ▶274Thought
Ferdinand de SaussureI’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.3110Love
Ferdinand de SaussureTime changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law ✨ Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). Course in General Linguistics, p.77, C… ▶232PoliticsTime
Ferdinand de SaussureWritten forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.278Death
Ferdinand de SaussureSpeech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other. ✨ Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). Course in General Linguistics,… ▶213Humanity
Ferdinand de SaussureOf all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force. ✨ Fe… ▶181HumanityLife
Ferdinand de SaussureA language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.206Politics
Ferdinand de SaussureIn fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly… ▶156Truth
Ferdinand de SaussureThe first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.1810Humor
Ferdinand de SaussureLanguage furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent. ✨ Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade B… ▶137Politics
Ferdinand de SaussureIn the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of speci… ▶1410PoliticsTruth
