Nietzsche’s trolling. “Look at the epochs in the life of a people where scholars predominated: they are times of exhaustion, often of twilight, of decline,—gone are the over-flowing energy, the certainty of life, the certainty as to the future.”

“My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as non-sensical, when he has used them—as steps—to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

“Exclusively discursive thinking that could separate and combine, but could never contemplate anything whole, would be an empty algebra, a formalism that could not be applied to anything. In human thinking, at any rate, the activities of reasoning and contemplation are rarely… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

“Everything in the Tractatus, I came to realize,—the musical cadence, its logical system of ‘the world,’ the say/show itself distinction, the remarks on timelessness, the mystical, silence, etc.—begins to fall into its proper place once the work is seen in its function as a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…