Individual Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure Download Open image “A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.” — Ferdinand de Saussure ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Individual Language Organs Users
As for organs, traits, etc., being "for" something, the notion may be a useful shorthand, but shouldn't be taken too seriously, if only because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The brain is not, like the liver, heart and other internal organs, capable from the moment of birth of all the functions which it… — Ray V. Pierce Copy Share Image
Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human. — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures.… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything. — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
The ultimate law of language is, dare we say, that nothing can ever reside in a single term. This is a direct consequence of… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other,… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
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… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages.… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Every select man strives instinctively for a citadel and a privacy, where he is FREE from the crowd, the many, the majority-- where he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,… — Kevin Rudd Copy Share Image
Why do we love certain homes, and why do they seem to love us? It is the warmth of our individual hearts reflected in… — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Copy Share Image
When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "What is a hero?" ...My answer was that a hero is someone who… — Christopher Reeve Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
If it comes to a question of law, the charges they brought against me - the Espionage Act - is called the quintessential political… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
![“[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals…” quote by John Carlos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/13b/john-carlos-16923_bills_sport-officials-blocked-their-support-of_4987.jpg)
