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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)
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Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the purpose for which it has always been intended. Or is some riddle solved by my surviving forever? Is not this eternal life itself as much of a riddle as our present life?
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The logical picture of the facts is the thought.
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If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense.
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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.)
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The aim of the book is to set a limit to thought, or rather — not to thought, but to the expression of thoughts: for in order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i. e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be set, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.
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Though a state of affairs that would contravene the laws of physics can be represented by us spatially, one that would contravene the laws of geometry cannot.
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Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.)
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We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course, there is then no question left, and just this is the answer. The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
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What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
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Born:
April 26, 1889
Died:
April 29, 1951
(aged 62)
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