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

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wisdom, Communication, Philosophical
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Proposition 5.6 (1922)

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, all is vanity.'

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wisdom, Vanity, Culture
Conversation in 1934. "Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections". Book by Rush Rhees, 1981.

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Wisdom, Giving Up, Climbing

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