Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951)
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He published one slim book in his lifetime — 75 pages that tried to solve all philosophical problems — then spent the rest of his career dismantling it. The Tractatus and the Investigations stand as opposite poles of 20th-century thought, both written by the same man.
Born in 1889 into one of Europe's richest families in Vienna, Wittgenstein inherited a fortune in 1913 and immediately gave large sums to struggling artists including Rilke and Trakl — then, in 1916, donated a million crowns for a military mortar. Three of his four older brothers died by suicide. He served as a decorated officer on the front line in World War I, then gave away his remaining wealth in a period of severe depression and left academia to teach in remote Austrian villages, where he used violent corporal punishment on students during math classes and sparked controversy in incidents…
Sourced, dated quotes from Ludwig Wittgenstein
You won't — I really believe — get too much out of reading it. Because you won't understand it; the content will seem strange to you.
It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop!
I work quite diligently and wish that I were better and smarter. And these both are one and the same.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
I cannot get from the nature of the proposition to the individual logical operations!!! That is, I cannot bring out how far the proposition is the picture of the situation.
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