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Language disguises thought.

Language disguises thought.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language, Disguise
Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.8, Clube de Autores

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Technique, Use, Language

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

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

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

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 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

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

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language, Mythology
Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.133, Hackett Publishing

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lions, Language, Understanding Him
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1958). “Philosophical investigations”

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

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”

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language, Imagine, Form
"Philosophical Investigations".

Elementary propositions consist of names.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Names, Logic, Language
Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: German and English”, p.89, Routledge

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”

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Class, Use, Language
"Philosophical Investigations" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, (§ 43), 1953.

We must plow through the whole of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Language, Whole
Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.131, Hackett Publishing

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

Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Games, Facts, Language

A propositional sign, applied and thought out, is a thought. A thought is a proposition with a sense.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Thoughtful, Thinking, Language
Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.22, Psychology Press

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logic, Language, Form
Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Francis Pears, Brian McGuinness (2001). “Tractatus Logico-philosophicus”, p.11, Psychology Press

All propositions are of equal value.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logic, Language, Equal
Ludwig Wittgenstein (2012). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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