Ray Monk

“Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.”

— Ray Monk

“Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity.”

— Ray Monk

“Wittgenstein dislikes all ornamentation that is not part of the construction, and never find anything simple enough.”

— Ray Monk

“What can be said at all can be said clearly; and whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent.”

— Ray Monk

“But how did you become devoted to the King who had done all this?’ Sudarshana asks. When did this change of feeling…

— Ray Monk

“Wittgenstein was very much against women's suffrage for no particular reason except that 'all women he knows are such idiots'.”

— Ray Monk