[cornelis]

What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent." Be silent? Is that all? Great Zot! What you say!

[NukeMan]

"What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent." Be silent? Is that all? Great Zot! What you say!"

Wittgenstein said that first...If he can't say it, I'm not gonna try.

[templar]

Be silent? Is that all? Great Zot! What you say!

I suspect that Wittgenstein was a rather lonely man. But that's probably true of anyone who has only one pair of glasses with which to view the world, be it philosophy or natural science or religion.

What he as said is basically that if we can't speak of something in an understandable manner we should say nothing at all. The Tractatus just lays down a set of rules for doing this within the confines of the world as it can be understood by natural science. There are many things in human experience that cannot be discussed by science or other epistemology.