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.


Philosophical investigations: (ed. 1958)

Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.