Language Quote by Jacques Lacan

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the…

— Thomas Hobbes

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

— Robert Smithson

Language is a signifier - it points to something. But those somethings change sometimes. Where the line comes down is that change is not…

— Kory Stamper

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.

— Umberto Eco

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a…

— Roman Jakobson

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify -…

— George Edward Woodberry

“Our brains are meaning machines. What we understand as “meaning” is generated by the associations our brain makes between two or more experiences.”

— Mark Manson

Until you decide what something means, it has no meaning at all. You determine what something means.

— Neale Donald Walsch

A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity. It addresses somebody,that is, creates in the…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

— Alfred Adler

“Signs are important because they can mean something other than themselves”

— Sean Hall