The Limits of Language

Ludwig Wittgenstein ended his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with a cryptic instruction: "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Yet this silence is not empty—it points to what lies beyond the sayable.

Language and Thought

Does language shape thought, or merely express it? The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis suggests that our linguistic categories structure our perception of reality. We may not be able to think what we cannot say.

The Mystical

For Wittgenstein, the most important things—ethics, meaning, the nature of the world as a whole—cannot be stated in language. They can only be shown, experienced, lived.

Beyond Words

Poets, mystics, and musicians gesture toward what cannot be said. Art becomes essential where philosophy falls silent. The deepest truths may require not argument but encounter.