You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The common behavior of mankind is the system of reference by means of which we interpret an unknown language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen

The language you are about to hear... is disturbing.
Dave Chappelle

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
George Santayana

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
Mike Myers

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Gore Vidal

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.
Gore Vidal

Finality is not the language of politics.
Benjamin Disraeli

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
W. H. Auden

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
Marilyn vos Savant

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
George Eliot

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
Erich Fromm

All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.
Robert Louis Stevenson