I make [my remarks] public with doubtful feelings. It is not impossible that it should fall to the lot of this work, in its poverty and in the darkness of this time, to bring light into one brain or another--but, of course, it is not likely.

I should not like my writing to spare other people the trouble of thinking. But, if possible, to stimulate someone to thoughts of his own.

I should have liked to produce a good book. This has not come about, but the time is past in which I could improve it.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Preface to Philosophical Investigations

Comments

[amz]

Best wishes for a dissertation as lousy as his, and the opportunity to produce such poverty in your later excoriation of it...

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