The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
modern · analytic-philosophy
Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein · 1889–1951 · Austrian
Engineer of language's limits. The fly-bottle, the unlocked door, and the world as the limits of what can be said.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that is unlocked and opens inwards, as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.