Structuralism Quotes

“History is a process without a subject.”

“In language there are only differences.”

“In the language itself, there are only differences... without positive terms.”

“The poetic function projects the principle of equivalence from the axis of selection into the axis of combination.”

“The twofold character of language is its capacity for combination and selection.”

“The binary opposition is a fundamental operation of the human mind.”

“Every sign is composed of a signifier and a signified.”

“What is significant about a myth is not its content but its structure.”

“Social structures are not things but models.”

“Language is a system of interdependent terms in which the value of each term results solely from the simultaneous presence of the others.”

“A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.”

“In language there are only differences.”

“Language is a system of interdependent terms in which the value of each term results solely from the simultaneous presence of the others.”