Books cover of Wolfram Eilenberger's Time of the Magicians showing a montage of portraits of Heidegger, Cassirer, Wittgenstein and Benjamin.

Just finished. Interesting to have Wittgenstein positioned in the wider currents of European thought. Understand him better. Benjamin was fascinating. Still don't understand Heidegger—it's always just out of grasp. #TimeOfTheMagicians

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6:52 We feel that even if all possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all. Of course there is then no question left, and just this is the answer.
-Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

"My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them….He must surmount these propositions, then he sees the world rightly."
-Wittgenstein’s Tractatus

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