Signifiers Quotes by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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• I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity… — Tilda Swinton
• The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
• I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a… — Casey Legler
• For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers… — John Updike
• Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the… — Jacques Lacan
• The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons… — Paul Di Filippo
• The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers,… — Roman Jakobson
• Our talents are signifiers that lead us toward our unique paths. Follow your passion and you will soon discover where you fit… — Senoraroy

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