“Language disguises thought.”

“It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.”

“We are struggling with language.We are engaged in a struggle with language.”