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
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
The world divides into facts.
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?
The face is the soul of the body.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
There can never be surprises in logic.
If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.