Of All Social Institutions Language Is Least

Outside Speech, The Association That Is Made In The Memory Between Words Having Something In Common Creates Different Groups, Series, Families, Within Which Very Diverse Relations Obtain But Belonging To A Single Category: These Are Associative Relations.

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.

Psychologically Our Thought-apart From Its Expression In Words-is Only A Shapeless And Indistinct Mass.

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.

Nearly All Institutions, It Might Be Said, Are Based On Signs, But These Signs Do Not Directly Evoke Things.