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In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms.

Ferdinand De Saussure's Popular Quotes

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

- Ferdinand De Saussure

In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the …

- Ferdinand De Saussure

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

- Ferdinand De Saussure

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

- Ferdinand De Saussure

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

- Ferdinand De Saussure

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas...

- Ferdinand De Saussure

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

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

- Ferdinand De Saussure

I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.

- Ferdinand De Saussure