Quote #12

I once wanted to give a few words in the foreword which now actually are not in it, which, however, I'll write to you now because they might be a key for you: I wanted to write that my work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

More from Ludwig Wittgenstein

  1. That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
  2. 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 ab…
  3. Ethics and Aesthetics are one.
  4. The world is all that is the case. (1)
  5. Man is the microcosm: I am my world.
  6. The world is the totality of facts, not things. (1.1)
  7. To believe in God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a me…
  8. What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. (2)

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