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.
We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
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.
We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.
Freud 's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. (Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of an illness.
All I know is what I have words for.
Everything is already there in...." How does it come about that [an] arrow points? Doesn't it seem to carry in it something besides itself? - "No, not the dead line on paper; only the psychical thing, the meaning, can do that." - That is both true and false. The arrow points only in the application that a living being makes of it.
At the end of reasons comes persuasion.
Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.
It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.
The form is the possibility of the structure.
If one understands eternity as timelessness, and not as an unending timespan, then whoever lives in the present lives for all time.
That which cannot be said must not be said. That which cannot be said, one must be silent thereof.