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
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.
Our ordinary language has no means for describing a particular shade of color. Thus it is incapable of producing a picture of this color.
Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.
Just be indipendent of the external world, so you don't have to fear for what's in it.
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.