For remember that in general we don’t use language according to strict rules – it hasn’t been taught to us by means of strict rules, either. We, in our discussions on the other hand, constantly compare language with a calculus preceding to exact rules.
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The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
Think, for example, of the words which you perhaps utter in this space of time. They are no longer part of this language. And in different surroundings the institution of money doesn’t exist either.
We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.
To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.
Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
