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
We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.
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.
The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
It's impossible for me to say one word about all that music has meant to me in my life. How, then, can I hope to be understood?
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.
I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein
If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.
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.