Quotes About Meaning

The real poem is the soul within them and that beautiful bit is the soul of an unwritten poem. It's not everyday one sees a soul, even of a poem.

BaÅŸar?s?zl?k deÄŸil, amaçs?zl?k suçtur. Hepimizin idealleru olmal? ve hepsini baÅŸaramasak da onlar? gercekleÅŸtirmek için uÄŸraÅŸmal?y?z. Onlar olmasa hayat çekilmez olurdu. Oysa yaÅŸam? muhteÅŸem k?lan ÅŸey ideallerimizdir

What is gold if love and good wishes count for anything?

Je suppose qu'il serait difficile d'envisager de la garder. - Il n'en est pas question ! A quoi pourrait-elle bien nous servir ? - Nous pourrions peut-être, nous, lui servir à quelque chose, lança Matthew, abruptement.

Language disguises thought.

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

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.

Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

If there were a verb meaning to believe falsely, it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.

In art it is hard to say anything as good as saying nothing.

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

So in the end, when one is doing philosophy, one gets to the point where one would like just to emit an inarticulate sound.

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

Music conveys to us itself!

the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

a nothing will serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

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

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves.

I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.