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
If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.
The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
Ethics and aesthetics are one.
We learn by rearranging what we know.
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.
One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.
Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand.