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
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
The sole remaining task for philosophy is the analysis of language.
Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
There can never be surprises in logic.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
The face is the soul of the body.
The world divides into facts.
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Imagine someone pointing to a place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying, 'The walls of my room should be painted this color.
There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.
To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.
It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.
The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.