A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

What's next? Shall we appoint elephants to teach zoology?

Languages differ essentially in what they must convey and not in what they may convey.

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

When I speak it is in order to be heard.

In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Success advances the man's cause, adversity cleans the man's soul.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it.

Trump's inability to control his own emotions is standing between himself and the presidency.

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

To be consistent in achieving inner peace, we must perceive a world where everyone is innocent.

You have a choice. You don’t have to be a person who spreads negativity and lies for a living. You can do something good. You can be good. Let’s just make that choice and — it feels better.

Happy people have no history.

The threat of nuclear warfare is very, very low. Trump is no fool, and he sees the world as a globalized world.

As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...