Wittgenstein Tweets

Wittgenstein Tweets

@WittTweets

Wittgenstein's life accelerated through 600 tweets.

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  1. 24 Nov

    Not too late to follow the life of Robert J. Oppenheimer: . He still hasn't made *that* thing, or said *those* words.

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  2. 5 Nov

    When I grow up I will be an architect. I will make things. I will make them big, I will make them grand. (1909, aged 5)

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  3. 4 Nov

    To follow the life of Robert J. Oppenheimer, accelerated through 600 tweets (a bit like me): . He starts at 22:00 GMT tomorrow.

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  4. 25 May 11

    ... Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951)

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  5. 25 May 11

    Lots of my friends are coming to see me tomorrow...

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  6. 24 May 11

    ... The doctor’s wife gave me an electric blanket today and said ‘Many happy returns.' I replied: ‘There will be no returns.'(1951, aged 61)

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  7. 23 May 11

    Am not at all well...

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  8. 22 May 11

    Am I not getting closer to saying that in the end logic cannot be described? You will see it in the practice of language. (1951, aged 61)

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  9. 21 May 11

    ... ‘This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.’ (1951, aged 61)

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  10. 21 May 11

    I sit with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’. Someone else overhears this and I tell them...

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  11. 20 May 11

    Even if I have hit the mark only rarely, philosophers will at least recognize what target I have been ceaselessly aiming at. (1951, aged 61)

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  12. 20 May 11

    ... BUT I am able to work now as I have never worked before! Writing an immense amount. (1951, aged 61)

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  13. 20 May 11

    I now do philosophy like an old woman who is always mislaying something and having to look for it again: now her spectacles, now her keys...

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  14. 19 May 11

    Go to the pub every evening with the doctor’s wife. I order two ports and pour mine into a plant pot! Very dishonest! (1951, aged 61)

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  15. 19 May 11

    My doctor’s home – where I now stay – has a wonderful name: ‘Storeys End’. (1951, aged 61)

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  16. 18 May 11

    Back in England, forced back to stay in Cambridge to stay close to doctor. It’s all X-rays, hormone prescriptions etc. (1951, aged 61)

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  17. 18 May 11

    In Norway with Ben. Enormously enjoyable. PERHAPS I will be able to live alone here once again and work on philosophy! (1950, aged 61)

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  18. 17 May 11

    How do I know that two people mean the same when each says he believes in God? As ever, PRACTICE gives the words their sense.(1950, aged 61)

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  19. 17 May 11

    I could not bring myself to believe what Catholics believe e.g. this is blood, not wine. But this serves as THEIR background.(1950, aged 61)

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  20. 17 May 11

    ... We work with an inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false. Is this background ‘justified’? (1950, aged 61)

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