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

6.53

7. What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence

6.44 It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exist

6.521 The solution of the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of the problem.
(Is not this the reason why those who have found after a long period of doubt that sense of life became clear to them have then been unable to say what constituted that sense?)

6.4311 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.

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6.421 It is clear that ethics cannot be put into words.
Ethics is transcendental.
(Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same.)

6.33 We do not have an a priori belief in a law of coversatioo, but rather a priori knowledge of the possibility of a logical form

6.13 Logic is not a body of doctrine, but mirror-image of the world.
Logic is transcendental

5.632 The subject does not belong to the world: rather, it is a limit of the world.

5.634 This is connected with the fact that no part of our experience is at the same time a priori.
Whatever we see could be other than it is.
Whatever we can describe at all could be other than it is.
There is no a priori order of things

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5.621 The world and life are one

5.63 I am my world. (The microcosm.)

5.6 The limits of my language mean the limits of my world

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5.4711 To give the essence of a proposition means to give the essence of all description, and thus the essence lf the world.

5.45 If there are primitive logical signs, then any logic that fails to show clearly how they are placed relatively to one another and to justify their existence will be incorrect. The construction of logic out of its primitive signs must be made clear

5.123 If a god creates a world in which certain propositions are true, then by that very act he also creates a world in which all the propositions that follow from them come true. And similarly he could not create a world in which the proposition ‘p’ was true without creating all its objects.

4.464 A tautology’s truth is certain, a proposition’s possible, a contradiction’s impossible.

4.461

4.1212 What can be shown, cannot be said

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4.015 The possibility of all imagery, of all our pictorial modes of expression, is contained in the logic of depiction.

3.3421 A particular mode of signifying maybe unimportant but it is always important that it is a possible mode of signifying. And that is generally so in philosophy: again and again the individual case turns out to be unimportant, but the possibility of each individual case discloses something about the essence of the world.

3.328 If asign is useless, it is meaningless. That is the point of Occam’s maxim.
(If everything behaves as if the sign had meaning, then it does have meaning)

3.262 What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.

3.311 An expression presupposes the forms of all the propositions in which it can occur. It is the common characteristic mark of a class of propositions.

3.221 Objects can only be named. Signs are their representatives. I can only speak about them: I cannot put them into words. Propositions can only say how things are, not what they are.

3.144 Situations can be described but not given names.
(Names are like points; propositions like arrows - they have sense.)

3.141 A proposition is not a blend of words.- (Just as a theme in music is not a blend of notes.)
A proposition is articulate

2.1 We picture facts to ourselves

2.12 A picture is a model of reality

Notes must have some pitch, objects of the sense of touch some of the hardiness, and so on.

2.0131 A spatial object must be situates in infinite space. (A spacial point is an argument-place.)
A speck in the visual field, though it need not be red, must have some colour: it is, so to speak, surrounded by colour-space.

1. The world is all that is the case

2. What is the case - a fact - is the existence of states of affairs.

Its purpose would be achieves if it gave pleasure to one person who read and understood it

Logic of our language is misunderstood

What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence