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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

"Philosophy is not a theory," asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), "but an activity." In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy

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“There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Words, Meaning, Msytery

“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 timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Life, Living, Time, Eternal Life

“The world and life are one.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Life, Connection, Philosophy

“It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Proposition, Debate, argument

“Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Philosophy, Clarification, Thoughts, activity

“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com

Tagged: Knowledge, Intelligence, Mind