The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Die Bedeutung eines Wortes ist sein Gebrauch in der Sprache.

Philosophers
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher born in 1889 who gave away his fortune and twice redrew the map of philosophy. His Tractatus set language limits; his Philosophical Investigations dismantled his own framework.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Other Quotes
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
-- Hannah Arendt
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
The first thing we can say of life is that it is a nexus.
-- Wilhelm Dilthey
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
-- Viktor Frankl
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
-- Viktor Frankl
Life is — or has — both meaning and meaninglessness. I cherish the anxious hope that meaning will preponderate and win the battle.
-- Carl Jung