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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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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

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The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technol...more

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Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant—so that he constantly called different things by that name—but nevertheless ...more

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The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

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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.