A review by lispectorsexual
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

3.0

When writing, I always think it’s important to acknowledge the fact that thoughts too obey the law of gravity. It’s sincerely easy to write ideas down without end, but that very flow will most likely not apply to the person that is going to be reading your work. Thoughts flow easy from head on to paper, but it’s different when it’s from paper to head. 

Wittgenstein proposes some ground-breaking ideas and ways of thinking and viewing our use of language - as well as its limitations - and how logic is evidently applied. But man, he has an unbelievably terrible way of expressing them. He spends a considerable amount of time on the same topic conducting endless examples I guess in the hope of ensuring you understand him…but he just loses you more. I didn’t mind him resorting to mathematics, I just wished he knew when it was enough, but I get it, he’s a mathematician. His writing has me completely convinced that Hegel is more comprehensible in comparison. Overall I’m not hating his ideas, I’m just really not in tune with how he writes. I’ve yet to meet philosophers that write and flow better than Schopenhauer and Sartre, and if we’re considering “anti-philosophers” then I’d have Cioran. But then again, Wittgenstein would hate to be called a philosopher.