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A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...
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Philosophical Remarks (1930), Part I (1)
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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.) (6.54)
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Original German: Meine Sätze erläutern dadurch, dass sie der, welcher mich versteht, am Ende als unsinnig erkennt, wenn er durch sie—auf ihnen—über sie hinausgestiegen ist. (Er muss sozusagen die Leiter wegwerfen, nachdem er auf ihr hinaufgestiegen ist.)
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There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. (6.522)
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Original German: Es gibt allerdings Unaussprechliches. Dies zeigt sich, es ist das Mystische.
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Scepticism is not irrefutable, but obviously nonsensical, when it tries to raise doubts where no questions can be asked. For doubt can exist only where a question exists, a question only where an answer exists, and an answer only where something can be said. (6.51)
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It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. (6.44)
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Variant translation: The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is. | Original German: Nicht wie die Welt ist, ist das Mystische, sondern dass sie ist.
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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. (6.4311)
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Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht. Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt. Unser Leben ist ebenso endlos, wie unser Gesichtsfeld grenz
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The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy. (6.43)
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Die Welt des Glücklichen ist eine andere als die des Unglücklichen
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The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world. (5.632)
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Original German: Das Subjekt gehört nicht zur Welt, sondern es ist eine Grenze der Welt.
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I am my world. (The microcosm.) (5.63)
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Original German: Ich bin meine welt (Der Mikrokosmos.)
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The world and life are one. (5.621)
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Original German: Die Welt und das Leben sind Eins.

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