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
Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible . There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?
Don't think, but look! (PI 66)
If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.
An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His support is the slenderest imaginable. And yet it really is possible to walk on it.
How small a thought it takes to fill a life.
Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!
Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.