“ The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time. (It is not problems of natural science which have to be solved.) 6.432 OGD [→GER | →P/M ] How the world is, is completely indifferent for what is higher. God does not reveal himself in the world. ”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921). copy citation
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
|---|---|
| Source | Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus |
| Topic | science solution |
| Date | 1921 |
| Language | English |
| Reference | |
| Note | Translated by C. K. Ogden |
| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/5740/5740-pdf.pdf |
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“6.4312 OGD [→GER | →P/M ] The temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say, its eternal survival also after death, is not only in no way guaranteed, but this assumption in the first place will not do for us what we always tried to make it do. Is a riddle solved by the fact that I survive for ever? Is this eternal life not as enigmatic as our present one? The solution of the riddle of life in space and time lies outside space and time. (It is not problems of natural science which have to be solved.) 6.432 OGD [→GER | →P/M ] How the world is, is completely indifferent for what is higher. God does not reveal himself in the world. 6.4321 OGD [→GER | →P/M ] The facts all belong only to the task and not to its performance. 6.44 OGD [→GER | →P/M ] Not how the world is, is the mystical, but that it is. 6.45 OGD [→GER | →P/M ] The contemplation of the world sub specie aeterni is its contemplation as a limited whole.”
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