
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)
Force and Signification
Writing and Difference (1978)
Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, Andre Breton (Manifesto of Surrealism; 1924)
Source: "Foundations of the Theory of Signs," 1938, p. 1 (1971:17), Lead paragraph first chapter
“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”
Source: The Judges
Matthew 16:3.
Tyndale's translations
Source: "Foundations of the Theory of Signs," 1938, p. 3
“From the beginning of the world it has been ordained that certain signs must needs precede certain events.”
Sed ita a principio incohatum esse mundum, ut certis rebus certa signa praecurrerent.
Book I, Chapter LII, section 118
Compare: "Often do the spirits / Of great events stride on before the events, / And in to-day already walks to-morrow", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Death of Wallenstein, Act v, scene 1
De Divinatione – On Divination (44 BC)
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (1994)
“Language is a system of conventional signs that can be voluntarily produced at any time.”
Hermann Ebbinghaus, quoted in: Geza Revesz, The Origins and Prehistory of Language, London 1956. footnote p. 126