The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Limits of language Language

Author

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Medium

Treatise

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

German

Time

1922 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Academic Philosopher Writer

From

Austria Europe

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Original Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. "Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung [Logical-Philosophical Treatise]." Annalen der Naturphilosophie [Annales of Natural Philosophy], 1921.

Current Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, translated by Michael Beaney. Oxford University Press, 2023.

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But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

John Maynard Keynes

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John Maynard Keynes
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A Tract on Monetary Reform
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Keynes, John Maynard. A Tract on Monetary Reform. MacMillan and Co., 1924, p. 80.

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Keynes, John Maynard. "A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923)." The Essential Keynes, edited by Robert Skidelsky. Penguin, 2016.

Another quote originally in German

We are one people-our enemies have made us one whether we will or not, as has repeatedly happened in history. Affliction binds us together, and thus united, we suddenly discover our strength. Yes, we are strong enough to form a State, and, indeed, a model State.

Theodor Herzl

The Jewish State

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Theodor Herzl
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The Jewish State
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1896 1890s 19th century
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Herzl, Theodore. Der Judenstaat [The Jewish State]. Leipzig: M. Breitenstein's Verlags-Buchhandlung, 1896.