So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
Interpretation
Language shapes our understanding of reality and limits the questions we can ask.
This quote by Michael Polanyi emphasizes the profound influence that language has on our perception of the universe. He suggests that the structure and vocabulary of a language not only frame our inquiries but also inherently endorse the theories of reality that are embedded within that language. This raises important questions about how our unique ways of speaking can restrict or guide our understanding of complex ideas and the world around us.
In practice
During a philosophy lecture discussing the impact of language on thought.
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.
We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.
Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?
As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really nothing more than a misperception within your own thinking.
I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.
The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.
If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.
A person who is obsessed thinks about heaven frequently. Obsessed people orient their lives around eternity; they are not fixed only on what is here in front of them.
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