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Ferdinand de Saussure has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule…
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Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by…
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Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
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In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language…
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Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
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Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law
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Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will…
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
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Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these…
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Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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Never misunderstand seriousness for sincerity. Sincerity is very playful, never serious. It is true, authentic, but never serious. Sincerity does not have…
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."…
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Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come…
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Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word…
— Dorothy Parker
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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…
— Ferdinand de Saussure
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People say that I am always serious and depressing, but it seems to me that the English are never serious - they…
— Anita Brookner
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series.…
— Damien Hirst
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Serious-minded people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.
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As we sat there staring at the view of the woods I looked over to see Starks eyes were that weird goldish…
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