Disguise Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure Download Open image “Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.” — Ferdinand de Saussure ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Disguise Form Garments Language Obscure Translations Views Writing Written
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I'd defend the right for any novelist to experiment with form or language, but if people don't take to it, don't react by making… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. In addition, the written… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire. — George Crane Copy Share Image
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. — Anonymous 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
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs. — 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
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
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
My dad's idea of punishment was to dress me up in all green to disguise me as grass, and then throw me in the… — Bryan Callen Copy Share Image
Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I have found that in fiction one is freer to speak the truth, if only because in fiction the truth is not expected or… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
“He was a chameleon. He could change his appearance in seconds. He was a master in disguise and he could baffle the best in… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image