If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
Ludwig WittgensteinRead
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Interpretation
Clear thinking leads to clear communication.
This quote emphasizes the importance of clarity in both thought and expression. Wittgenstein suggests that if we can conceive of a thought, we should be able to articulate it plainly, reflecting the fundamental connection between our ideas and the linguistic frameworks we use to convey them.
In practice
In a public speaking event to emphasize the importance of clarity in communication.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.
No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.
It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer.
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.
The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.
Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
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