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Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure

“The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.”

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Ferdinand de Saussure, born on November 26, 1857 in Geneva, Switzerland, and died on February 22, 1913. He was a Swiss linguist and the founder of structuralism in linguistics, regarded as one of the most important linguists of the 20th century. more

“The monkish vows keep us far from that sink of vice that is the female body, but often they bring us close to other errors. Can I finally hide from myself the fact that even today my old age is still stirred by the noonday demon when my eyes, in choir, happen to linger on the beardless face of a novice, pure and fresh as a maidens?”

Stills Facts Body Happens Eye Age Today Faces Pure Female Errors Vices Old Age Demon Vow Choir Maidens Female Body Novices

Book:The Name of the Rose

Source: The Name of the Rose

“The print does not always have the same shape as the body that impressed it, and it doesn't always derive from the pressure of a body. At times it reproduces the impression a body has left in our mind: it is the print of an idea.”

Mind Doe Ideas Body Left Shapes Pressure Impression Print Impressed

Book:Name of the Rose

Source: Name of the Rose

“Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.”

Should Ideas Philosophy Series Glorious Visuals Display Composition Disconnected Iceberg

Book:Travels in Hyperreality

Source: Travels in Hyperreality

Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure

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