Signifier And Signified Quotes

#1. The difference between structuralism and existentialism is simple: the world-constituting 'I' of existentialism is displaced by the linguistic relation between signifier and signified.

Stephen Trombley

#2. If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

Martin Luther

#3. Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

Italo Svevo

#4. Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

Jacques Lacan

#5. Everything you want is cheap or free. If you went to a venture capitalist and said: "I need money to buy tools." You flunked the IQ test, I mean every tool that you need is free!

Guy Kawasaki

#6. The sound of snapping twigs and crunching footsteps echoed nearer.

Jessica Sorensen

#7. A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

Rudolf Arnheim

#8. We do not work for unity; we work to end and erase disunity. Unity is of God; disunity is of man. In matters of doctrine and practice of conscience, our guide should be this traditional saying: In essentials, unity. In nonessentials, liberty. But in all things, love.

Mike Timmis

#9. If we want to obtain the wisdom of God, we have to be capable of fellowshipping with God on a spiritual level.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Emotion is bad if it hinders the mind from thinking. An
emotion that opens the mind to contemplate several
aspects of things at once is better than one that fixes
thought to an obsession.

A.C. Grayling

#11. The connection between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary.

Ferdinand De Saussure

#12. The sole, absolute standard was inside himself.

Reki Kawahara

#13. Lizbeth?" He barks from the balcony. "Guess what I just caught our daughter doing? Experimenting with beastiality
with a bird! And you can probably guess which daughter.

Addison Moore