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
There is not a philosophical method, though there are indeed methods, like different therapies.
Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death.
That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.
We must do away with all explanation, and description alone must take its place.
In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and if there were, it would be of no value.
The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.
Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical.
[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
Golden is a surface colour.
A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.
What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .