# Ludwig Wittgenstein

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## Books

- [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/ludwig-wittgenstein/tractatus-logico-philosophicus.md) — 49 quotes

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> If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense.

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> A tautology's truth is certain, a 's possible, a contradiction's impossible. (Certain, possible, impossible: here we have the first indication of the scale that we need in the theory of probability.)

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> The world and life are one.

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> Propositions are truth-functions of elementary propositions. (An elementary proposition is a truth-function of itself.)

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> Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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> Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

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> The subject does not belong to the world, but it is a limit of the world.

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> The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

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> The world of the happy is quite different from the world of the unhappy.

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> It is quite impossible for a proposition to state that it itself is true.

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> The thought is the significant proposition.

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

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