To say, therefore, that thought cannot happen in an instant, but requires a time, is but another way of saying that every thought must be interpreted in another, or that all thought is in signs.

Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

Let us not pretend to doubt in philosophy what we do not doubt in our hearts.

Effort supposes resistance.

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

'Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!'

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot…