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
Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.
The only life that is happy is the life that can renounce the amenities of the world. To it the amenities of the world are so many graces of fate.
Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man -- but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs
About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.
A confession has to be part of your new life.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a change in our own attitude, hardly even occurs to us, and the resolution to take such a step is very difficult for us.
What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
I am my world.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.