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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Arcadia

Birthdate:

1982-04-26

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6.522	There is indeed the inexpressible. This shows itself; it is the mystical.
6.54	My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognises them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must surmount these propositions; then he sees the world rightly.
7	Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

Wittgenstein, by Guy Davenport

He came to believe that a normal, honest human being
could not be a professor. It is the academy that gave
him his reputation of impenetrable abstruseness;
never has a man deserved a reputation less.
Disciples who came to him expecting to find a man
of incredibly deep learning, found a man who saw mankind
held together by suffering alone, and he invariably advised
them to be as kind as possible to others.
He read, like all inquisitive men, to multiply his experience.
He read Tolstoy (always getting bogged down) and the Gospels
and bales of detective stories.
He shook his head over Freud.
When he died he was reading Black Beauty.
His last words were: “Tell them I had a wonderful life.”

Wittgenstein's military identity card during WWI.

Wittgenstein's last worked-on page before he died.

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