An Austrian philosopher who contributed several ground-breaking ideas to
philosophy, mainly in the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of
mathematics, and especially the philosophy of language. His influence has been
wide-ranging, placing him among the most significant philosophers of the 20th century.
He is regarded by some professionals as the most important philosopher since
Immanuel Kant. With time, his theories began to transform twentieth-century philosophy.
Raised in a prominent Viennese family, Ludwig Wittgenstein studied
engineering in Germany and England, but became interested in the foundations of mathematics
and pursued philosophical studies before entering the Austrian army
during World War I.
Wittgenstein argued to be an avoidable mistake that had caused great difficulties in the
philosophy of mind. His views on this issue were a significant influence on Ryle and others.
In his later work, Wittgenstein applied this method of analysis to philosophical problems
related to epistemology, mathematics, and ethics.
(1889 - 1951)
A confession has to be part of your new life.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
What can be shown, cannot be said.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are
fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was
stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything
of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to
mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those
who live in the present.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The world is the totality of facts, not of things.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that
I am not thrown off at this very moment.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The world is independent of my will.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which
any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
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."
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The face is the soul of the body.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
He was the famous Alsatian-born German theologian, philosopher, organist, and mission doctor. His family for generations had been devoted to religion, music, and education.He was the great humanitarian, inspirational person and writer.
In 1952 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of "the Brotherhood of Nations." Two years before his death, his hospital and leper colony were serving 500 patients. His philosophical books discuss his famous principle of "reverence for life."
(1875-1965))
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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