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
One can defend common sense against the attacks of philosophers only by solving their puzzles, i.e., by curing them of the temptation to attack common sense....
The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.
That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
If I have exhausted the justifications, I have reached bedrock and my spade is turned. Then I am inclined to say: 'This is simply what I do.
If in life we are surrounded by death, then in the health of our intellect we are surrounded by madness.
Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.
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.