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
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
I give no sources, because it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
It is obvious that an imagined # world , however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief.
Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.
The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.
Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.