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

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

I am my world.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.

Don’t think, but look!

Logic takes care of itself, all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Logic takes care of itself, all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

The face is the soul of the body.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

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.

We are obliged to steal pieces of language, both visual and textual.

One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

The lapse of ages changes all things – time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.

For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.

Even with the best intentions, language misused, language used stupidly, carelessly, brutally, language used wrongly, breeds lies, half-truths, confusion. In that sense you can say that grammar is morality. And it is in that sense that I say a writer’s first duty is to use language well.