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
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.
Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.
Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.
A French politician once wrote that it was a peculiarity of the French language that in it words occur in the order in which one thinks them.
My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.