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What we cannot think we cannot think, therefore we also cannot say what we cannot think.
What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.
It used to be said that God could create everything, except what was contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is, we could not say of an “unlogical” world how it would look.
Man possesses the capacity of constructing languages, in which every sense can be expressed, without having an idea how and what each word means—just as one speaks without knowing how the single sounds are produced.
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
The “experience” which we need to understand logic is not that such and such is the case, but that something is; but that is no experience. Logic precedes every experience—that something is so. It is before the How, not before the What.
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
What we cannot think, that we cannot think: we cannot therefore say what we cannot think.
Logic is not a theory but a reflexion of the world. Logic is transcendental.
That the sun will rise to-morrow, is an hypothesis; and that means that we do not know whether it will rise.
The world is independent of my will.
Death is not an event of life. Death is not lived through. If by eternity is understood not endless temporal duration but timelessness, then he lives eternally who lives in the present. Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
