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Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.

Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: I'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.

I'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.

Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.

Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.

The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.

Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

Ferdinand De Saussure quotes: Language 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.

Language 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 quotes: Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.