Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Silence
Sextus, Sentences 162a (tr. Walter T. Wilson):
Michael,
"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen"
Ludwig Wittgenstein in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Variously translated, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" or less cumbersomely, "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence".
Chris Chambers
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Regarding things you do not know, be silent.Strict observance of this rule would make the world a very quiet place.
περὶ ὧν οὐκ οἶδας σιώπα.
de quibus ignoras tace.
Michael,
"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen"
Ludwig Wittgenstein in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Variously translated, "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent" or less cumbersomely, "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence".
Chris Chambers
