Ludwig Wittgenstein

is a thinker who taught us not to put too great a burden upon language, but to learn its limitations and try to accommodate ourselves to them, for language offers all the reality we can ever hope to know.

This inseparableness of everything in the world from language has intrigued modern thinkers, most notably Ludwig Wittgenstein... If its limits—that is, the precise point at which sense becomes nonsense—could somehow be defined, then speakers would not attempt to express the inexpressible. Therefore, said Wittgenstein, do not put too great a burden upon language. Learn its limitations and try to accommodate yourself to them, for language offers all the reality you can ever hope to know.

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