Language Quote by Ray Monk

“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. -Ludwig Wittgenstein”

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

“Wittgenstein dislikes all ornamentation that is not part of the construction, and never find anything simple enough.”

— Ray Monk

“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”

— Dorothy Parker

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do…

— Aldous Huxley

“Like the positivists, Wittgenstein was hostile to metaphysics. But he attacked metaphysics not with a blunt instrument like the verification principle, but by the…

— Anthony Kenny

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The human lanuage, as precise as it is with its thousands of words, can still be so wonderfully vague.”

— Garth Stein

The thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they…

— Tim Crane

“entailing difficult technical philosophical terms are so different from those of European thought, that they can hardly ever be accurately translated.”

— Surendranath Dasgupta

Every witticism is an inexact thought; that which is perfectly true is imperfectly witty.

— Walter Savage Landor

“I believe language is infinitely malleable, a live being in our hands, which deserves our great respect and curiosity”

— Brian Kiteley

“Precision of language, Jonah.”

— Lois Lowry