Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Communication
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My difficulty is only an - enormous - difficulty of expression. (p. 40)
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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.
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The thought is the significant proposition. (4)
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But ordinary language is all right. (p. 28)
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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)
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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)
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If a lion could talk, we could not understand him (II, xi; p. 223 of the 1968 English edn.)
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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.
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Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. (p. 56e)
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Animals come when their names are called. Just like human beings. (p. 67e)
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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)
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At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
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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.
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For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
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There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.