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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human. Felix Bloch
Science Situation Restricted Seems More Generally Human
In fact, from then on scholars engaged in a kind of game of comparing different Indo-European languages with one another, and eventually they could not fail to wonder what exactly these connections showed, and how they should be interpreted in concrete terms. Ferdinand de Saussure
Game Kind Exactly Fact Could Scholars Fail Terms Another How Concrete Wonder Different In Fact Then Should Engaged Languages Connections Comparing Eventually Interpreted
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. Ferdinand de Saussure
Language Will Strictly Those Recognise Restricted General Laws Rational Operating Another Linguistics Branch Manner Separating Languages Phenomena Universally
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. Ferdinand de Saussure
Language First Philosophical Carried Invented Unchanged Never Had French Greeks Any Grammar View Phases
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas. Ferdinand de Saussure
Differences System Combined Ideas Sound Linguistic Series
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. Ferdinand de Saussure
Will Say Sign Systems Case Part Involve Same Any Psychology Social Languages Applicable
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar. Ferdinand de Saussure
Language Correcting Directed Studies Merely Towards Longer Were Grammar Henceforth
The business, task or object of the scientific study of languages will if possible be 1) to trace the history of all known languages. Naturally this is possible only to a very limited extent and for very few languages. Ferdinand de Saussure
History Business Will Few Possible Object Only Study Trace Known Scientific Limited Very Task The History Of Languages Naturally Extent
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken. Ferdinand de Saussure
Communication Words First Relation Relations Independent Kind Spoken Within Subject Which Based Speech
For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Man People Think State Those Critical Critically Facilitate Entity Rational Mythical Human Order Fiction Created Who Coexistence Acumen
Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Freedom Mind State Totalitarian Only Prevent Demands Becoming
Human life is beyond comprehension. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Life Comprehension Beyond Human Human Life
This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how? Friedrich Durrenmatt
World Become Humane More How Inhuman
The savages don't have atom bombs. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Atom Bombs Savages
The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things can be said. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Art Good Good Things Only Mastered Said Cuisine Human Which Capability Fully Things
The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Dissent Claim Rightful Individual Existential Right
Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Age Old Old Age Way Pretend Only Reach Dumb
World history is tragic. Friedrich Durrenmatt
History World Tragic World History
Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Today Communism Myth Party Think Abandon Only Democratic Becomes Infallible Survive
We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Patriotism Behavior Consider Civilized Desirable
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Thought Worst Possible Has-Been Through Taken Been End Story Turn
Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Man Reality Imperfect He Always Endangered Creates
News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news. Friedrich Durrenmatt
News Change World Change The World Those Only Facts Get Reports Happened
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them. Friedrich Durrenmatt
Risks Humanity Destruction Acceptable Which Them
Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them. Friedrich Durrenmatt
You Business Emotions Unless Place Them
We are the world. Friedrich Durrenmatt
World
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