Ferdinand de Saussure

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

“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.”

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

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

“Las costumbres de una nación tienen repercusión en su lengua y, a su vez, la lengua es la que en gran medida hace a la nación.”

“Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.”