Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgensteinwas an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. From 1929 to 1947, Wittgenstein taught at the University of Cambridge. During his lifetime he published just one slim book, the 75-page Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one article, one book review and a children's dictionary. His voluminous manuscripts were edited and published posthumously. Philosophical Investigations appeared as a book in 1953, and has since come to be...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth26 April 1889
CityVienna, Austria
CountryAustria
Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain
The world is the totality of facts, not of things
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.
A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or expressed in...
You can't be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.
It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
An image is not a picture, but a picture can correspond to it.
What can be shown, cannot be said.
Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.
The world is everything that is the case.
It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.
Is it even always an advantage to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't the indistinct one often what we need?
It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.