Top Signified Quotes

  • Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. – Kathy Acker

    Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.– Kathy Acker

  • It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order. – David Byrne

    It was a uniform that signified that one was a kind of downtown aesthete; not necessarily nihilistic, but a monk in the bohemian order.– David Byrne

  • [T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.] – Ludwig Feuerbach

    [T]he present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original[.]– Ludwig Feuerbach