"It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification."

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"It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification."

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Identity, Memory, Past, Truth

"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

Identity, Church, Army, Day

"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

Identity, Darkness, Death, Mental

"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

bell hooks, American Critic

Identity, Violence, Adolescence, Emotion

"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Identity, Individual, Experience, Self

"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

Identity, Truth, Emotion, Wisdom, Power

"As I think of myself, so I shall be."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

Identity, Self, Thought, Perception

"Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were."

David Levithan, American Author

Identity, Connection, Desire, Defiance

"No action could be lower or more futile than for one person to throw upon another the burden of his abdication of choice."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Identity, Memory, Life, Editing, Truth

"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

Identity, Writer, Expression, Self

Explore more quotes by Roman Jakobson

"Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language."

Progress, Language, Meaning, Semantics

"At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features."

First,

"It is once again the vexing problem of identity within variety; without a solution to this disturbing problem there can be no system, no classification."

Identity, Solution, Variety

"Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding."

Now, Observation

"The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features."

Giving, Risk, Value

"Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve."

Richness, Sound

"In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified."

Language, Sound, Value

"Instead of following one another the sounds overlap; a sound which is acoustically perceived as coming after another one can be articulated simultaneously with the latter or even in part before it."

Sound,

"Speech sounds cannot be understood, delimited, classified and explained except in the light of the tasks which they perform in language."

Language, Light, Speech

"For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc."

Example, Grave, Light, Opposition