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Without language, thought is a...

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Henceforth, language studies w...

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

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Linguistics will have to recog...

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

It is useful to the historian,...

It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

It is only since linguistics h...

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Outside speech, the associatio...

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

A linguistic system is a serie...

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

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Any psychology of sign systems...

Any 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 languages.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Time changes all things; there...

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

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Speech has both an individual ...

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

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

The very special place that a ...

The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Psychologically our thought-ap...

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

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Within speech, words are subje...

Within 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.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

In the lives of individuals an...

In 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 specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Written forms obscure our view...

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

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Of all social institutions lan...

Of 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.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

The ultimate law of language i...

The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of the fact that linguistic signs are unrelated to what they designate and that, therefore, 'a' cannot designate anything without the the aid of 'b' and vice versa, or, in other words, that both have value only by the difference between them.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

Language furnishes the best pr...

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 Saussure 68 quotes

A language presupposes that al...

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

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

The first of these phases is t...

The 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.

Ferdinand Saussure 68 quotes

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