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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus QUOTES

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus QUOTES

1 " Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

2 " We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

3 " Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

4 " Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.
Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt.
Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenzenlos ist.


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Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through.
If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present.
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

6 " Language disguises thought. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

7 " That of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

8 " The agreement or disagreement or its sense with reality constitutes its truth or falsity. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

9 " The right method of philosophy would be this. To say nothing except what can be said, i.e. the propositions of natural science, i.e. something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions. This method would be unsatisfying to the other - he would not have the feeling that we were teaching him philosophy - but it would be the only strictly correct method. My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly. Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

10 " Belief in the causal nexus is superstition. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

11 " It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

12 " The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another in that pictorial internal relation, which holds between language and the world.
To all of them the logical structure is common.
(Like the two youths, their two horses and their lilies in the story. They are all in a certain sense one.) "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

13 " Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

14 " It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

15 " The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

16 " I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me
whether what I have thought has already been
thought before me by another. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

17 " Philosophy should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

18 " There can never be surprises in logic. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

19 " The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

20 " The world is independent of my will. "

― Ludwig Wittgenstein , Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus