The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
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Other Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes:
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
The face is the soul of the body.
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thoughts.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
