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01Undated

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

Ferdinand de Saussure / quote

02Undated

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

Ferdinand de Saussure / quote

03Undated

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

Ferdinand de Saussure / quote