Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Understanding
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. (5.6)
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My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) (6.54)
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The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word - like a lump of sugar in water. (p.183)
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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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If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day. (p. 8e)
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The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.