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
Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: "Let's have done with it now," and it's having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.
Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.
Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.
Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.