“It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.”
More from Ludwig Wittgenstein on Language
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
“The limits of your language are the limits of your world.”
“If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.”
“An entire mythology is stored within our language.”
“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
“Language disguises thought.”
Others on Language
William S. Burroughs
2 quotes“Language is a virus from outer space”
Alfred Tennyson
2 quotes“For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.”
Lewis Carroll
2 quotes“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more...”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 quotes“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”
David Mitchell
2 quotes“London is a language. I guess all places are.”
Goethe
2 quotes“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”
Alan Watts
1 quote“It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description.”
Anne Rice
1 quote“Who could trust language?”
C.S. Lewis
1 quote“'Good English' is whatever educated people talk so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.”
Carl Sandburg
1 quote“Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.”
Cassandra Clare
1 quote“We live and breathe words.”
E.M. Forster
1 quote“They had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.”