Quote of Ferdinand de Saussure - Time changes all things; there is...
Biography - Ferdinand de Saussure:
Swiss linguist and semiotician.
Born: 1857 - Died: 1913
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Switzerland
Born: 1857 - Died: 1913
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Switzerland
Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law.
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(French, German)
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Quotes about change:
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Quotes about time:
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
Quotes for: Language
Language serves not only to express thoughts, but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.
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