Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.

Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all freely consent.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

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.

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

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.

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