Quote #13

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.

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  1. 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 migh…
  2. The world is all that is the case. (1)
  3. That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
  4. The world is the totality of facts, not things. (1.1)
  5. Ethics and Aesthetics are one.
  6. What is the case, the fact, is the existence of atomic facts. (2)
  7. Man is the microcosm: I am my world.
  8. The logical picture of the facts is the thought. (3)

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