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Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes on language

6 verified English passages where Ludwig Wittgenstein’ s thought meets questions of language.

Ludwig Wittgenstein on language

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) approaches language within analytic philosophy. The Tractatus connects meaningful propositions to logical form; later work explains meaning through language-games and forms of life. Systematically, the teaching links language, logic, mind, meaning into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets language most directly—useful for searches such as “ludwig wittgenstein quotes on language.”

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  1. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
    Q0084
    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 7
  2. What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
    Q0086
    Philosophical Investigations §116
  3. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
    Q0125
    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 5.6
  4. The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
    Q0127
    Philosophical Investigations §43
  5. Don’t think, but look!
    Q0423
    Philosophical Investigations §66
  6. The most ordinary things escape notice precisely because they are ordinary.