More from Ludwig Wittgenstein

  1. My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through th…
  2. A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made clear in no matter what idiom. Part I(1)
  3. There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. (6.522)
  4. The idea that in order to get clear about the meaning of a general term one had to find the common element in all its applications has shac…
  5. It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)
  6. For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules - it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either. (…
  7. 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 timelessn…
  8. What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? (p. 26)

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