Quotes

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I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!
― Lil Wayne
Language
Speak
ForeignLanguage
Lil Wayne
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Make peace with guilt. Guilt is a poisonous illusion. Many languages don't even have a word for guilt.
― Kris Carr
Guilt
Language
Illusion
Kris Carr
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Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.
― Nouman Ali Khan
Nouman Ali Khan
Maturity
People
Language
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For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
― Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
Men
Language
Disappear
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I don't think in any language. I think in images.
― Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
Thinking
Language
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Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
Nebula
Language
Uncharted
Ferdinand De Saussure
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Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
Law
ReasonWhy
Language
Ferdinand De Saussure
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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 business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
WouldBe
Study
Language
Ferdinand De Saussure
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Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
Views
Language
Obscure
Ferdinand De Saussure
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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
Ideas
GoesOn
Language
Ferdinand De Saussure
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
Language
Individual
Organs
Ferdinand De Saussure
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Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
Conservative
Language
Initiative
Ferdinand De Saussure
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
Different
Able
Language
Ferdinand De Saussure
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Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
Study
Language
Grammar
Ferdinand De Saussure
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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.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
Psychology
Language
Social
Ferdinand De Saussure
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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
Law
Branches
Language
Ferdinand De Saussure
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The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
Tasks
Study
Language
Ferdinand De Saussure
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The very special place that a language occupies among institutions is undeniable, but there is much more to be said-, a comparison would tend rather to bring out the differences.
― Ferdinand de Saussure
Differences
Special
Language
Ferdinand De Saussure
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
― Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco
Feelings
Matter
Language
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It must be noted that it is often the colleague or direct disciple of a new thinker who gets stuck in literal interpretations of the work, tending to freeze the new ideas and language into an inflexible, static condition.
― Uta Hagen
Ideas
Language
Interpretation
Uta Hagen