Ludwig Wittgenstein on Books
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, catalogued under books, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, entry #137917: "I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly."
Attributed to Ludwig Wittgenstein, entry #84479: "Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?"
3 Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein on Books
"I would really like to slow down the speed of reading with continual punctuation marks. For I would like to be read slowly."
"Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing?"
"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. In reality, it isn't strange to you, for the point is ethical. I once wanted to give a few words in the foreword which now actually are not in it, which, however, I'll write to you now because they might be a key for you: I wanted to write that my work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one."