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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked in logic, philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.
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science · Austrian philosopher and logician (1889–1951) · philosopher of language · architectural theoretician · logician · mathematician · aphorist · epistemologist · philosopher · teacher · university teacher · pedagogue · also Ludwig Wittgenstein, Wittgenstein
Born 26 April 1889 · Died 29 April 1951 · Q9391
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2026· 12 entries
“You misunderstand me, Russell. You always misunderstand me.”
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“a book of such tantalizing perplexity and controversy that it stays on the required-reading list for centuries to come”
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“For a large class of cases of the employment of the word”
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“Everything about the place repels me. The stiffness, the artificiality, the self-satisfaction of the people. The university atmosphere nauseates me.”
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“the house I built for Gretl is the product of a decidedly sensitive ear and good manners, and expression of great understanding... But primordial life, wild life striving to erupt into the open – that is lacking.”
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“The main point is the theory of what can be expressed (gesagt) by prop[osition]s – i.e. by language – (and, which comes to the same thing, what can be thought) and what can not be expressed by pro[position]s, but only shown (gezeigt); which, I believe, is the cardinal problem of philosophy.”
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“probably no sufficient reason to write to you as I did”
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“felt the curse of those who have half a talent”
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“s encouragement had proven his salvation, and had ended nine years of loneliness and suffering, during which he had continually thought of suicide. In encouraging him to pursue philosophy and in justifying his inclination to abandon engineering, Russell had, quite literally, saved Wittgenstein”
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“Christianity is indeed the only sure way to happiness”
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The New Indian Express: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Whereof he couldn’t speak, thereof he was silent
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2021· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 19 août 2021.”
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2020· 1 entry
An English version entitled Word Book translated by art historian Bettina Funcke and illustrated by artist / publisher Paul Chan was released
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2018· 1 entry
BBC: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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2015· 1 entry
The ledger gravestone was refurbished by the British Wittgenstein Society
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2011· 2 entries
“A. J. Ayer's Critique of Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument”
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Two new boxes of Wittgenstein papers, thought to have been lost during the Second World War, were found
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1999· 1 entry
A survey among American university and college teachers ranked the Investigations as the most important book of 20th-century philosophy, standing out as "the one crossover masterpiece in twentieth-century philosophy, app
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1993· 2 entries
“[citato in Fruttero & Lucentini, Íncipit, Mondadori, 1993]”
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“(wyd. Biblioteka Aletheia, Warszawa 1993, tłum. Małgorzata Sady i Wojciech Sady)”
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1981· 1 entry
“Ludwig Wittgenstein, personal recollections - página 96, Rush Rhees, Editora Rowman and Littlefield, 1981, ISBN 0847662535, 9780847662531, 235 páginas”
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1980· 1 entry
“Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious”
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1976· 1 entry
Dedicated to Wittgenstein's work and its relationship to analytic philosophy and philosophy of science
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1963· 1 entry
In the German education theory review Club Voltaire, but the entire imagined dialogue with Wittgenstein was published after Lambridis's death by her archive holder, the Academy of Athens, in 2004
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1961· 1 entry
“As translated by Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, first edition (1961), Second edition (1984)”
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1953· 1 entry
“Philosophical investigations, Parte 1 - página 47, Volume 1 de Wittgenstein's works, Ludwig Wittgenstein, 3a. ed., Editora B. Blackwell, 1953, 464 páginas”
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1951· 19 entries
Died 1951-04-29.
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“Pozostaw czytelnikowi to, co on sam potrafi.”
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His voluminous manuscripts were edited and published posthumously
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“Wczoraj wieczorem masturbowałem się; smutne, ale prawdziwe.”
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“Opis: reakcja Wittgensteina, który przez całe życie cierpiał na myśli samobójcze, na wiadomość, że zdiagnozowano u niego raka prostaty.”
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“Teraz jestem w innej dziurze, choć muszę powiedzieć, że nie jest lepsza od starej. Życie z ludźmi jest trudne! Tylko że oni nie są naprawdę ludźmi, a raczej ¼ zwierzęcia i ¾ człowieka.”
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“Prawdziwym pytaniem o życie po śmierci nie jest to, czy istnieje, ale nawet jeśli istnieje, jaki problem to naprawdę rozwiązuje.”
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“Nie powiem „Do zobaczenia jutro”, bo byłoby to jak przewidywanie przyszłości, a tego na pewno nie potrafię zrobić.”
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“Należy z wdzięcznością cieszyć się dobrymi godzinami życia jako łaską, a poza tym być obojętnym na życie. Dzisiaj przez długi czas zmagałem się z depresją, po czym ponownie się masturbowałem.”
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“Moje dni upływają pomiędzy logiką, gwizdaniem, chodzeniem na spacery i stanami depresji.”
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“Masturbowałem się dziś wieczorem. Jak bardzo jest źle? Nie wiem.”
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“Kiedy czytam wasze czasopisma, często dziwię się, jak ktokolwiek może czytać „Mind” z całą jego impotencją i bankructwem, kiedy mogliby czytać czasopisma Street&Smith. Niech będzie, każdemu swoje.”
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“Jeżeli USA nie dostarczą nam czasopism detektywistycznych, nie będziemy im mogli dostarczyć filozofii i w ten sposób w ostateczności to Ameryka będzie stratna.”
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“Wzajemne pozdrowienie filozofów powinno brzmieć: Nie spiesz się!”
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“Stawiam niezliczone niestosowne pytania. Gdybym tylko zdołał przedrzeć się przez ten las.”
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“Oby Bóg dał filozofowi wgląd w to, co leży przed oczyma wszystkich.”
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“Wir fühlen dass selbst, wenn alle möglichen wissenschaftlichen Fragen beantwortet sind, unsere Lebensprobleme noch gar nicht”
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“Die Philosophie ist ein Kampf gegen die Verhexung unsres Verstandes durch die Mittel unserer Sprache.”
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“Sagen sie ihnen, dass ich ein wundervolles Leben gehabt habe.”
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1947· 2 entries
Finding it rather difficult to work, he wrote:I have had a letter from an old friend in Austria, a priest
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To concentrate on his writing, and in 1947 and 1948 travelled to Ireland, staying at Ross's Hotel in Dublin and at a farmhouse in Redcross, County Wicklow, where he began the manuscript MS 137, volume R
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1946· 1 entry
But Wittgenstein withdrew the manuscript from his publisher
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1939· 2 entries
Had been working as a mechanic, with Kirk as his apprentice
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There were 2,100 applications for Mischling status (or for "promotions" within such status), of which Hitler granted only 12
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1938· 2 entries
Travelled to Ireland to visit Maurice O'Connor Drury, a friend who became a psychiatrist, and considered such training himself, with the intention of abandoning philosophy for it
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And 1943, but the book remained unfinished
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1936· 1 entry
As part of a series of "confessions" he engaged in that year, Wittgenstein appeared without warning at the village saying he wanted to confess personally and ask for pardon from the children he had hit
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1930· 3 entries
“La sola cosa di me che forse un giorno si spezzerà, e di questo ho talvolta paura, è il mio intelletto. (26 aprile 1930)”
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“Ci sono uomini che sono troppo fragili per andare in frantumi. A questi appartengo anch'io. (26 aprile 1930)”
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“Senza un po' di coraggio non si può scrivere nemmeno un'osservazione sensata su se stessi. (26 aprile 1930)”
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1929· 2 entries
And dominated meetings; for a time, he stopped attending in the early 1930s after complaints that he gave no one else a chance to speak
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“Some Remarks on Logical Form”
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1928· 1 entry
“Even though I admired the house very much. ... It seemed indeed to be much more a dwelling for the gods.”
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1927· 1 entry
And did so several times before the latter would agree to be introduced to some of his colleagues
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1926· 3 entries
By Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, the only book of his apart from the Tractatus that was published in his lifetime
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And that, as Russell first noticed, this "wild life striving to be in the open" was precisely the substance of Wittgenstein's philosophical work
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Wittgenstein was again working as a gardener for a number of months, this time at the monastery of Hütteldorf, where he had also inquired about becoming a monk
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1922· 2 entries
“Alle Zitate nach: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Herausgegeben von C. K. Ogden und F. P. Ramsey, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922. Digitalisat bei wittgensteinproject.org”
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An agreement was reached with Wittgenstein that Kegan Paul would print a bilingual edition with Russell's introduction and the Ramsey–Ogden translation
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1921· 2 entries
Followed by an English translation in 1922 with help from Frank P
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As Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung, part of Wilhelm Ostwald's journal Annalen der Naturphilosophie, though Wittgenstein was not happy with the result and called it a pirate edition
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1920· 1 entry
Wittgenstein was given his first job as a primary school teacher in Trattenbach, under his real name, in a remote village of a few hundred people
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1919· 2 entries
“Notes of 1919, as quoted in Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (1990) by Ray Monk”
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“On his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in a letter to Ludwig von Ficker (1919), published in Wittgenstein: Sources and Perspectives (1979) by C. Grant Luckhard”
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1918· 1 entry
Was promoted to lieutenant and sent to the Italian front as part of an artillery regiment
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1917· 1 entry
“In a letter to Paul Engelmann (1917) as quoted in The Idea of Justice (2010) by Amartya Sen, p. 31”
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1916· 4 entries
When he started confronting much greater dangers during frontline fighting
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“Journal entry (11 June 1916), p. 72e and 73e”
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After Wittgenstein had criticized Russell's own work:His [Wittgenstein's] criticism, tho' I don't think you realized it at the time, was an event of first-rate importance in my life, and affected everything I have done s
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Wittgenstein read Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov so often that he knew whole passages of it by heart, particularly the speeches of the elder Zosima, who represented for him a powerful Christian ideal, a holy man "wh
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1915· 4 entries
“Journal entries (12 March 1915 and 15 March 1915) p. 41e”
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“Journal entry (8 March 1915) p. 40”
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“Journal entry (1 May 1915)”
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“Journal entry (14 May 1915), p. 48”
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1914· 8 entries
When Wittgenstein asked Moore to assist him in dictating his notes
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“Notebooks, 1914-1916 - página 72, Ludwig Wittgenstein, G. E. M. Anscombe, Georg Henrik Von Wright, Editores G. E. M. Anscombe, Georg Henrik Von Wright, Traduzido por G. E. M. Anscombe, Edição 2, ilustrada, Editora University of Chicago Press, 1984, ISBN 0226904474, 9780226904474, 234 páginas”
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“Journal entry (11 October 1914), p. 10e”
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“Journal entry (13 October 1914), also in Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (§ 5.47)”
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“Journal entry (1 November 1914)”
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“Writing about the eventual outcome of World War I, in which he was a volunteer in the Austro-Hungarian army (25 October 1914), as quoted in The First World War (2004) by Martin Gilbert, p. 104”
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It had been providing him with an income of 300,000 Kronen a year, but by 1919 was worth a great deal more, with a sizable portfolio of investments in the United States and the Netherlands
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When Wittgenstein went to visit, Trakl had killed himself
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1913· 4 entries
But would return to Cambridge in 1929 and resume attending meetings
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Wrote: how can I be a logician before I'm a human being
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Studied at Trinity College, Doctor of Philosophy (1911–1913).
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Retreated to the village of Skjolden in Norway, where he rented the second floor of a house for the winter
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1912· 4 entries
Wittgenstein joined the Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club, an influential discussion group for philosophy dons and students, delivering his first paper there on 29 November that year, a four-minute talk defining p
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Francis Skinner in 1930, and Ben Richards in the late 1940s
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Wittgenstein wrote to Bertrand Russell saying that Mozart and Beethoven were the 'actual' sons of God
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But resigned almost immediately because he could not tolerate the style of discussion
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1911· 2 entries
Studied at Victoria University of Manchester (1908–1911).
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And that earned him a research studentship from the university in the autumn of 1908
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1908· 2 entries
Studied at Technische Universität Berlin, Diplom (1906–1908).
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Studied at Technische Hochschule Berlin (1906–1908).
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1906· 1 entry
Studied at Bundesrealgymnasium Linz Fadingerstraße (1903–1906).
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1904· 1 entry
To spend the 1904/1905 academic year at the Realschule in Steyr
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1903· 1 entry
When he was 14, he began his three years of formal schooling there, lodging nearby during the term with the family of Josef Strigl, a teacher at the local gymnasium, the family giving him the nickname Luki
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1898· 1 entry
To invest substantially in the Netherlands and in Switzerland as well as overseas, particularly in the US, the family was to an extent shielded from the hyperinflation that hit Austria in 1922
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1889· 1 entry
Born 1889-04-26.
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