Quote #5

What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists.

More from Ludwig Wittgenstein

  1. Certainly it is correct to say: Conscience is the voice of God. (p. 75)
  2. The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God.
  3. One of the most difficult of the philosopher's tasks is to find out where the shoe pinches. (p. 60)
  4. To pray is to think about the meaning of life.
  5. I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!! That is, I cannot bring out how far the proposition…
  6. 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…
  7. My difficulty is only an - enormous - difficulty of expression. (p. 40)
  8. Man is the microcosm: I am my world.

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