And nothing is more wrong-headed than calling meaning a mental activity! Unless, that is, one is setting out to produce confusion. (It would also be possible to speak of an activity of butter when it rises in price, and if no problems are produced by this it is harmless.)

What finds its reflection in language, language cannot represent. What expresses itself in language, we cannot express by means of language.

6.4321 The facts all contribute only to setting the problem, not to its solution. 6.44 It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. 6.45 To view the world sub specie aeterni is to view it as a whole - a limited whole. Feeling the world as a limited whole - it is this that is mystical.

The world is my world: this is shown by the fact that the limits of language stand for the limits of my world…I am my world.

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

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

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.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.