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)

Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on...

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on...

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on...

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on...