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
Ludwig Wittgenstein quotes about
If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.
Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter.
A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.
A main cause of philosophical disease-an unbalanced diet: one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.