Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes About Language

• Si habláramos otro idioma, percibiríamos un mundo algo distinto.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Comunicación, Diferente, Mundo

• The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Mean, Common

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

• La filosofía es una batalla contra el embrujamiento de nuestra inteligencia por medio del lenguaje.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Mean

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

• Pronunciar una palabra es como tocar una nota en el teclado de la imaginación.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Motivational, Yoga, Imagination

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.37, John Wiley & Sons

• De lo que no se puede hablar, hay que callar.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Filosofía, Filosófico, Silencio

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) prefacio

• Los límites de mi lengua significan los límites de mi mundo.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Sabiduría, Comunicación, Filosofía

  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposición 5.6 (1922)

• Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Language, Complicated

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

• Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Holiday, Goes On

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.69, John Wiley & Sons

• El lenguaje disfraza el pensamiento.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lenguaje, Disfraz

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus", p.8, Clube de Autores.

• It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Logic, Language, Disguise

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus", p.8, Clube de Autores.

• My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them--as steps--to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcend these propositions, and then he will see the whole world aright.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Ladders, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.89, Psychology Press

• Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Glue, Nails

• Como todo lo metafísico, la armonía entre el pensamiento y la realidad se encuentra en la gramática de la lengua.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, Language, Harmony

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1974). “Philosophical Grammar: Part I, The Proposition, and Its Sense, Part II, On Logic and Mathematics”, p.162, Univ of California Press

• Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Clothes, Body, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.63, Routledge

• You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Pain, Language, Concepts

  Garth Hallett, Ludwig Wittgenstein (1977). “A companion to Wittgenstein's "Philosophical investigations"”, Cornell Univ Pr

• All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Real, Philosophical

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.23, Psychology Press

• To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Technique, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

• Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  House Of Cards, Interesting, Leaving

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

• In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Order, Should Have

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “The Tractatus According to Its Own Form”, p.1, Lulu.com

• Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Body, Spirit, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.67, John Wiley & Sons

• If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lions, Language, Understanding Him

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

• And to imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language, Imagine, Form

  "Philosophical Investigations".

• A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Language, Repeats, Lays

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical Investigations”

• One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Technique, Use, Language

• A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Order, Language

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Philosophical Investigations”, p.253, John Wiley & Sons

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