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Don’t for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 56e
- Advice
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Philosophical Investigations (1953), Pt II, p. 223 of the 1968 English edition
- Animals
The whole sense of the book might be summed up in the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922), Preface
- Philosophy
Just because somebody hears something you say, or reads something that you write, doesn’t mean you’ve reached them.
Frank Zappa1940–1993Oui interview (1979)
- Writing