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

“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.”

“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”

“Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!”

“An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.”

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

“Language disguises thought.”