The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein


Ludwig Wittgenstein 1889 – 1951
Austrian Cambridge philosopher i periods Skjolden in Norway 1913 to last time 1951
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Human subjectivity
•«A desert-mountain environment (or any landscape, for that matter) plays a central role in
constructing human subjectivity, including the way one envisions the holy. The place where we live
tells us who we are — how we relate to other people, to the larger world around us, even to God.
Meaningful participation in any environment requires our learning certain «gestures of approach» or
disciplines of interpretation that make entry possible. All these are matters essential to the
analysis of any spirituality.(-)This intimate connection between spirit and place is hard to grasp
for those of us living in a post-Enlightenment technological society. Landscape and spirituality
are not, for us, inevitably interwoven.» (Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes:
Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, p.9)

On Skjolden -
•«I can’t imagine that I could have worked anywhere as I do here. It’s the quiet and, perhaps, the
wonderful scenery; I mean its quiet seriousness.» (LW, 1936)
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“To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.”
•Ludwig Wittgenstein


“What can be shown, cannot be said.”
•Ludwig Wittgenstein


“At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.”
•Ludwig Wittgenstein


Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
•Ludwig Wittgenstein


Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
•Ludwig Wittgenstein


“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
•Ludwig Wittgenstein


“Only describe, don't explain.”
•Ludwig Wittgenstein


“Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your
nonsense.”
•Ludwig Wittgenstein