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
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannotbe expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can beput at all, then it can also be answered.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
He who lives in the present lives in eternity.
Ethics and aesthetics are one.
We learn by rearranging what we know.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.
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.