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
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.
The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.
All propositions are of equal value.
Elementary propositions consist of names.
I won't say 'See you tomorrow' because that would be like predicting the future, and I'm pretty sure I can't do that.
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Genius is what makes us forget the master's talent.
Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
The world is independent of my will.
The sense of the world must lie outside the world... What we cannot speak about we must remain silent about... What can be described can happen too, and what is excluded by the laws of causality cannot be described.
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.