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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 links meaningful propositions to logical pictures of states of affairs and consigns ethics and the mystical to silence beyond sense. Later work rejects a single essence of language: meaning is use within language-games embedded in forms of life. 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.
  2. What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
  3. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
  4. The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
  5. Don’t think, but look!
  6. The most ordinary things escape notice precisely because they are ordinary.