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
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I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.
It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly.
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.
Golden is a surface colour.
Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became blackish red, it would become cloudy.
The form is the possibility of the structure.
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.
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.
Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.