“The limits of your language are the limits of your world.”

Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.

If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

At the core of all well-founded beliefs lies belief that is unfounded.

Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.

I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.

How small a thought it takes to fill a life.

Music conveys to us itself!

Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

What can be shown, cannot be said.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgment.

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Roughly speaking: objects are colorless.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

To believe in God is to see that life has meaning

Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste,

The true Way is sublime. It can’t be expressed in language. Of what use are scriptures? But someone who sees his own nature finds the Way, even if he can’t read a word.

Just remember if we get caught, you’re deaf and I don’t speak English.

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.

If it’s racist, it’s racist. If it’s anti-Semitic, it’s anti-Semitic. If it’s anti-women, it’s anti-women. If it’s anti-immigrant, it’s anti-immigrant, and we need to really strengthen our language, so that it is clear and not mushy.

Armenian is the language to speak with God.

I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House.