Thoughts on { Language | Martin Walser, 1927-2023
Joan Miro, Woman, Star, 1942
“People who don’t pay attention to the question of justification are often rather uninteresting, in my opinion. I am most fascinated by characters who struggle with the demands of justification.”
“If you cannot live without justification, you cannot live; period. And the path towards it is the path of language.”
“Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.”
“Those who use language and have nothing but language to express themselves live in a cage that cannot feel comfortable.”
Martin Walser, 1927-2023
