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
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.
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.