Ferdinand de Saussure Quotes on Truth
Ferdinand de Saussure was a Swiss linguist and semiotician whose posthumously assembled Course in General Linguistics (1916) became the foundational text of structural linguistics and, through it, of twentieth-century structuralism in anthropology, literary theory, and philosophy. This page collects quotes attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure:
“Language is a system of signs that express ideas.”
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Attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure:
“In language there are only differences, without positive terms.”
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Attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure:
“The linguistic sign unites a concept and a sound-image.”
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Attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure:
“The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.”
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Attributed to Ferdinand de Saussure:
“Language is form, not substance.”