Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Biography : Austrian-British philosopher.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Austria
Austria

Austria

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Quotes

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.

The meaning of a word is its use in the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

Ethics and aesthetics are one and the same.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

Thoughts at peace. That is the goal someone who philosophizes longs for.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

The solution to the problem, which you see in life, lies in living in a way that makes the problems disappear.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

It is clear that ethics cannot be stated. Ethics is transcendental.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

ethics

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

An entire mythology is stored within our language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

Language

The world and life are one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

What is your aim in Philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

philosophy

What expresses itself in language, we cannot express by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

Language

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

Where does this idea come from? It is like a pair of glasses on our nose through which we see whatever we look at. It never occurs to us to take them off.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

idea

Our language can be seen as an ancient city: a maze of little streets and squares, of old and new houses, and of houses with additions from various periods; and this surrounded by a multitude of new boroughs with straight regular streets and uniform houses.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

Language

The world is everything that is the case.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

world

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 - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

knowledge

If a lion could talk, we would not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Journal /

If a lion could talk, we would not understand him.

© Hans Jürgen Heringer

This is how philosophers should greet each other: 'Take your time!'
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

When you are philosophising you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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

philosopher

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

logic