15 Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Communication

Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes on communication

1. My difficulty is only an - enormous - difficulty of expression. (p. 40)

13. The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.

18. The thought is the significant proposition. (4)

39. But ordinary language is all right. (p. 28)

45. Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?' (p.193)

55. But if you say: 'How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?' then I say: 'How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?' (504)

59. If a lion could talk, we could not understand him (II, xi; p. 223 of the 1968 English edn.)

68. 370. But more correctly: The fact that I use the word 'hand' and all the other words in my sentence without a second thought, indeed that I should stand before the abyss if I wanted so much as to try doubting their meanings - shows that absence of doubt belongs to the essence of the language-game, that the question 'How do I know...' drags out the language-game, or else does away with it.

87. Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. (p. 56e)

88. Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings. (p. 67e)

92. To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth. (p. 119)

107. At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

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

111. For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

134. There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.