Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein:
(Vienna, 26 April 1889 – Cambridge, 29 April 1951).
Austrian-British philosopher. He made many contributions to the philosophy of language and to the foundations of logic. He also made contributions to the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of mind. He is considered a pioneer of analytic philosophy and is considered one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. His late work is additionally associated with the school of Ordinary language philosophy. His elder brother was the pianist Paul Wittgenstein.
I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.
What I miss most is someone I can talk nonsens to by the yard.
What the solipsist means is quite correct; only it cannot be said, but makes itself manifest. The world is *my* world: this is manifest in the fact that the limits of language (of that language which alone I understand) mean the limits of *my* world.
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
