Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes

Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

The written word is everything.

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

Writing is a communication.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand.

Words are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r)

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

I write in words. I don't write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.

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