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.


On his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, in a letter to Ludwig von Ficker (1919), published in Wittgenstein : Sources and Perspectives (1979) by C. Grant Luckhard

Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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, ...

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, ...

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, ...

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, ...