# Quote — Peter Farb, Word Play

> This inseparableness of everything in the world from language has intrigued modern thinkers, most notably Ludwig Wittgenstein... If its limits—that is, the precise point at which sense becomes nonsense—could somehow be defined, then speakers would not attempt to express the inexpressible. Therefore, said Wittgenstein, do not put too great a burden upon language. Learn its limitations and try to accommodate yourself to them, for language offers all the reality you can ever hope to know.

- Author: [Peter Farb](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-farb.md)
- Book: [Word Play](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-farb/word-play.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peter_Farb#Word_Play_(1974)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-farb/word-play/this-inseparableness-of-everything

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> Each language encourages its speakers to tell certain things and to ignore other things.

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> Experiments... have shown that at least one aspect of human thought—memory—is strongly influenced by language.

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> Wilhelm von Humboldt... stated that the structure of language expresses the inner life of its speakers: "Man lives with the world about him, principally, indeed exclusively, as language presents it."

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