Sunday, March 24, 2024

Wittgenstein as a writer

Wittgenstein wrote 3 million words.

He published 25,000.

He was a writer. That’s what he did. 

To his mind, writing and publishing were radically different. Obviously, one did not often lead to another. Writing was just a way of thinking — a way of working out the ideas that interested him. 

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