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“A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.”
― Ferdinand de Saussure

“Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.”
― Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics

“Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law”
― Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics

“Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.”
― Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics

“Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.”
― Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics

“belief is the death of intelligence.”
― Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins

“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”
― Robert Anton Wilson