Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
Ferdinand de SaussureNearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
Ferdinand de SaussureHenceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
Ferdinand de SaussureIn general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
Ferdinand de Saussure