Source: A Little Princess
1960s, The Fields of David Smith,' (1999)
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Context: This remark provides the key to the problem, how much truth there is in solipsism. For what the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is my world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of my world. (5.62)
Reply to counsel who said a challenge from the bench was “just a matter of semantics,” Reader’s Digest (June 1964).
Other writings
“Almost without words, you’ve come to this world, which understands nothing without words.”
Has venido a este mundo que no entiende nada sin palabras, casi sin palabras.
Voces (1943)
The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934), A Cold Day
