Early Wittgenstein thought that there were important things that make themselves manifest but cannot be put into words.
Early Wittgenstein thought that there were important things that make themselves manifest but cannot be put into words.
Wittgenstein had a mystical side. He thought that the most important things in life were not science and facts -- but something higher that couldn't be put into words. He spoke of "the meaning of life" -- and how it may suddenly become clear to us; we don't grasp the meaning of life by getting more facts about the world.
He wrote: "How things are in the world is a matter of complete indifference for what is higher. God does not reveal himself in the world. The facts contribute only to the setting of the problem, not to its solution. It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. To view the world under the view of eternity is to view it as a limited whole. Feeling the world as a limited whole -- it is this that is mystical."
Early Wittgenstein thought that there were important things that make themselves manifest but cannot be put into words.
Wittgenstein had a mystical side. He thought that the most important things in life were not science and facts -- but something higher that couldn't be put into words. He spoke of "the meaning of life" -- and how it may suddenly become clear to us; we don't grasp the meaning of life by getting more facts about the world.
He wrote: "How things are in the world is a matter of complete indifference for what is higher. God does not reveal himself in the world. The facts contribute only to the setting of the problem, not to its solution. It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. To view the world under the view of eternity is to view it as a limited whole. Feeling the world as a limited whole -- it is this that is mystical."