Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 26. April 1889 |
Todesdatum | Sonntag, 29. April 1951 |
Todesort | Cambridge |
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Beschreibung | Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (* 26. April 1889 in Wien; † 29. April 1951 in Cambridge) war einer der bedeutendsten Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er lieferte wichtige Beiträge zur Philosophie der Logik, der Sprache und des Bewusstseins. Seine beiden Hauptwerke Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung (Tractatus logico-philosophicus 1921) und Philosophische Untersuchungen (1953, postum) wurden zu zentralen Bezugspunkten zweier philosophischer Schulen, des Logischen Positivismus und der Analytischen Sprachphilosophie. Sein rund 20.000 Seiten umfassender philosophischer Nachlass wurde Ende Oktober 2017 in die Liste des UNESCO-Weltdokumentenerbes eingetragen. |
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.
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.
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.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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.
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
