Language Wittgenstein

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or wittgenstein:

    “The writer’s language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language.”
    —Paul De Man (1919–1983)

    “A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)