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
Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?
This is how philosophers should salute each other: ‘Take your time.
In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
Our civilization is characterized by the word ''progress.'' Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is sought only
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''
Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.
Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.
Architecture immortalizes and glorifies something. Hence there can be no architecture where there is nothing to glorify.