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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.

6.41

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

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

5.6

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.