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
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
All mathematics is tautology.
Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?
I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."
The so-called law of induction cannot possibly be a law of logic, since it is obviously a proposition with a sense.--Nor, therefore, can it be an a priori law.
I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images...
Genius is talent in which character makes itself heard.
Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of it.
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein
Russell's books should be bound in two colours, those dealing with mathematical logic in red - and all students of philosophy should read them; those dealing with ethics and politics in blue - and no one should be allowed to read them.
If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.