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.

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Any psychology of sign systems will be part of social psychology - that is to say, will be exclusively social; it will involve the same psychology as is applicable in the case of languages.

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

The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.