Quotes by Language An entire mythology is stored within our language. Ludwig Wittgenstein mythologylanguage It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. Ludwig Wittgenstein disguiselogiclanguage One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.' Ludwig Wittgenstein techniquelanguageuse To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique. Ludwig Wittgenstein techniquelanguagemean Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life. Ludwig Wittgenstein languagegamesfacts A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture. Ludwig Wittgenstein logicformlanguage All propositions are of equal value. Ludwig Wittgenstein equallogiclanguage Elementary propositions consist of names. Ludwig Wittgenstein logiclanguagenames For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language. Ludwig Wittgenstein languageuseclass Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. Lynne Truss punctuation-marksdetourslanguage And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life. Ludwig Wittgenstein imagineformlanguage When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved. Lytton Strachey ruinslanguagecivilization It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable. M. H. Abrams languageagecountry They can’t even think of freedom because they don’t have the language to. M. K. Asante languagethinking We must plow through the whole of language. Ludwig Wittgenstein languagewhole Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit. Ludwig Wittgenstein languagebodyspirit A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense. Ludwig Wittgenstein thoughtfullanguagethinking Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring. M. F. K. Fisher reassuringlanguagefun One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. Mads Mikkelsen world-loveone-thinglanguage If we want to be heard we must speak in a language the listener can understand and on a level at which the listener is capable of operating. M. Scott Peck levelslanguagewant«6566676869707172737475»
