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The limits of your language are the limits of your world.

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Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows w...more

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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

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It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, ...more

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The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

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An entire mythology is stored within our language.

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Some people's taste is to an educated taste as is the visual impression received by a purblind eye to that of a normal eye. Where a normal eye will se...more

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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.

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The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.

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Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.

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That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

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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 extern...more

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