Language Wittgenstein

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“Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints—the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk—we think we’re using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we’re its slavish agents.”
—Harry Mathews (b. 1930)

“What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)