Language Wittgenstein

Famous quotes containing the words language and/or wittgenstein:

    “The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)