Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

All pain is the same. Only the details are different.

Different persons growing up in the same language are like different bushes trimmed and trained to take the shape of identical elephants. The anatomical details of twigs and branches will fulfill the elephantine form differently from bush to bush, but the overall outward results are alike.

I love learning language and ideas that I didn't know before and making them sound like my own.

Mum and Dad sent us to a bilingual school, so we had half the lessons in English and half in French. But I remember being hugely lost.

Studying English was useless, completely useless. It took me years to recover from that. Every time I tried to write, it sounded like a bad university essay.

I'm a good student. Just trying to learn as much as possible is how I picked up so many languages.

I'm very proud that I have learned German and Russian. Especially Russian, because of how difficult and beautiful it is and because of how much I struggled in the beginning to get my head around how it works.

It is not easy, but young people have to learn languages.

You always speak the language you hear most.

I taught myself German and psychology. Learning about psychology really helped me understand myself and the others around me and it helped keep me sane.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, and consciousness is the ability to feel things and have subjective experiences.

Each language is a different lens from through which you view the world. So, learn as much as you can!

Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.

We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.

I suppose my ideal brain food is learning languages.

I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.

Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just as the decrepitude of age in the price we pay for the vigor of youth.

Pain is just another form of information.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

Pain, thou art not an evil

We live equally out of our bodies and out of our minds.

I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because I was born and raised in the U.S. That really gave me an edge. I understand that, from the experts, if you grew up bilingual, your brain kind of gets wired to accept a new language. It was a very serious deal because not only did I have to learn Russian to a high degree in order to function as a necessary member of the crew, but also I knew that the Russians that came over that made an effort and had some success in learning English, those were the folks we trusted.

The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly.