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
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Tell them I've had a wonderful life.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
With my full philosophical rucksack I can only climb slowly up the mountain of mathematics.
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.