That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.

Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.

The limits of language are the limits of one's world.