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

Essence is expressed in grammar.
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations /

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 /

music

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

philosophy

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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 /

life

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

truth

The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

problem

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 /

My difficulty is only an — enormous — difficulty of expression.
Ludwig Wittgenstein /

difficulty