Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Biography : Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher widely regarded as one of the 20th century's most influential thinkers, particularly in logic, language, and analytic philosophy.
Born: 1889 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: Austria
Austria

Austria

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Quotes

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.

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 /

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

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

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

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 /

The world is independent of my will.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /