Excerpt from LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN’s Tractatus LogicoPhilosophicus.
6-4312 The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time.
6.432 How the world is, is completely indifferent for what is
higher. God does not reveal himself in the world.
6.4321 The facts all belong only to the task and not to its performance.
Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is. The contemplation of the
world sub specie aeterni is its contemplation as a limited whole. The feeling
of the world as a limited whole is the mystical feeling. For an answer which
cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.
The riddle does not exist.
If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
The riddle does not exist.
If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
6.51 Scepticism is not irrefutable, but palpably
senseless, if it would doubt where a question cannot be asked.
For doubt can only exist where there is a question; a question only
where there is an answer, and this only where something can be said.
6.52 We feel that even if all possible scientific questions can 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.
6,521
The solution of the problem oflife is seen in the vanishing of this problem.
6.522
There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself;
it is the mystical. .
6.53 The right method of philosophy would be this: to say nothing except
what can be said, i.e. something that has nothing to do with philosophy: and
then always, when someone else wished to say something metaphysical, to demonstrate
to him that he had given no meaning to certain signs in his propositions. This
method would be unsatisfying to the other-he would not have the feeling that we
were teaching philosophy-but it would be the only strictly correct method.
6.54 My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me
finally recognises them as senseless when he has climbed out through them, on
them, over' them. (He must, so to speak, throwaway the ladder, after he has
climbed up on it.)
He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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