Movements of Thought by Ludwig Wittgenstein;James C. Klagge;Alfred Nordmann;

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein;James C. Klagge;Alfred Nordmann;
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing
Published: 2022-12-11T00:00:00+00:00

Then I don’t know what comes & it closes:

“When perhaps already in the pit I

am rotting away”

What this means: When in your (philosophical) thoughts you come to the place where I was, then (it is supposed to mean) feel respect for my thinking when perhaps already etc.

Thank God that I feel a bit quieter & better today. But whenever I feel better, I am very close to vanity.

Now I often tell myself in doubtful times: “There is no one here.” and look around. Would that this not become something base in me!

I think I should tell myself: “Don’t be servile in your religion!” Or try not to be! For that is in the direction of superstition.

A human being lives his ordinary life with the illumination of a light of which he is not aware until it is extinguished. Once it is extinguished, life is suddenly deprived of all value, meaning, or whatever one wants to say. One suddenly becomes aware that mere existence—as one would like to say—is in itself still completely empty, bleak. It is as if the sheen was wiped away from all things, everything is dead. This sometimes happens after a sickness, for example but of course it is not therefore less real or important, that is, not taken care of by a shrug. One has then died alive. Or rather: this is the real death that one can fear, for the mere “end of life” one does not experience (as I have written quite correctly). But what I have written here isn’t the full truth either.211

In my stupid thoughts I compare myself to the highest human beings!

Really, the horrible that I wanted to describe is that one “doesn’t have a right to anything anymore.” “There is no blessing with anything.”212 That is, this seems to me as if someone on whose friendly regard everything depends said: “Do as you wish but you don’t have my consent!” Why does it say: “The lord is wrathful.”—He can ruin you. Then one can say that one is descending to hell. But this is not really an ‘image,’ for if I really had to descend into an abyss this wouldn’t have to be frightful. An abyss is nothing terrible, after all & what is hell anyway: that one could compare something to it, that is, explain it through this image? One must rather call this condition “a presentiment of hell”—for in this condition one also wants to say: It can get more horrible still: for all hope is not yet completely extinguished. Can one say that one must therefore live in such a way that when one can hope no longer, one has something to remember?

Live so that you can prevail in the face of that condition: for all your wit, all your intellect won’t do you any good then. You are lost with them as if you didn’t have them at all. (You might as well try to use your good legs while falling through the air.) Your whole life (after all) is undermined, and therefore you, with all you have.

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