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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Great Lives

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Is He Mad?

He suffered enormously with being a driven person. But he wasn't mad in the sense any clinical madness that i would recognize, clinical rome that i wouldrecognize. When pinsent said to him, you're mad, he replied, god, preserve me from sanity. And when russell heard about the exchange, he remarked, god certainly will. Was he mad? No, noi itin out. I mean, hehe suffered enormously from e move swings from, i'm particuarly included depression. He worked in er for a while as an orderly and then got interested in some medical research that was going on. Then returned to cambridge completely to reverse everything he

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