Language Wittgenstein

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or wittgenstein:

    “There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth.”
    —Elias Canetti (b. 1905)

    “Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)