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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
The world is the totality of facts, not things.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
The logical picture of the facts is the thought.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
The thought is the significant proposition.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
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.)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Though a state of affairs that would contravene the laws of physics can be represented by us spatially, one that would contravene the laws of geometry cannot.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
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.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
The world is all that is the case.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
I am my world. (The microcosm.)
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)