Association Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure

We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and…

— Daniel Kahneman

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Abstract ideas are the patterns two or more memories have in common.

— Rudolf Flesch

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves

— Johann Georg Hamann

Relations are sometime like tangled threads, together in some way, but with no real shape, individuality or combination.

— Tasneem Hameed

“For every relationship involves two related terms. Sometimes relationships are not real in either term, but arise from the way we think of the…

— Thomas Aquinas

Words belong to each other.

— Virginia Woolf

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

— William Labov

“The second category is long-term memory—the place where everything “remembered” resides. Long-term memory is engaged in the short term (e.g., word memorization) and in…

— David DiSalvo

An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the changing circumstances…

— Anonymous

The identifying personal association with objects, which are not personal, is an important modern experience - our real association, the strands of our feelings…

— Michael Craig-Martin

A relation is formed betwixt every man and the fruits of his own labour, the very thing we call property, which he himself is…

— Henry Home, Lord Kames