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Here are some of his favorites which caught my eye
>The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
>The Varieties of Religious Experience by W. James.
>The King of the Dark Chamber by Tagore
>Confessions by St Augustine
>Sex and Character by Weininger
>Kierkegaard's work

>> No.18356592
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18356592

>he had a lifelong rivalry with hitler

>> No.18356886

>>18356592
did he?

>> No.18356942

>>18356529
>Sex and Character by Weininger
wtf is this real? source?

>> No.18357075

>>18356942
Check out Ray Monk's biography of Wittgenstein, he discusses the book and its influence on Witty at length

>> No.18357086

Another interesting favorite of his was Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief.
Very interesting to see through this list how religious Wittgenstein was, in his own weird way.

>> No.18357102

>>18357086
He once said to a friend "I am not a religious man: but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point of view." We can conclude that at least he had a soul and wasn't a soulless bugman like Russell.

>> No.18357132

>>18357102
Yeah and not only did he have a soul, but he had more soul than most, the poor guy

>> No.18357137

>>18356942
Yeah, He famously put the '~' character before it to indicate it is approximately true.

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>>18356886
They were archenemies ever since that fated history class.

>> No.18357232

>>18357215
That is Hitler but that's not Wittgenstein. He was in another class.

>> No.18357270

>>18357232
That would make Ray Monk wrong if I recall the biography right.

>> No.18357274

>>18356529
>The Varieties of Religious Experience by W. James.
ah. now i understand why my Wittgenstein obsessed friend recommended such a book.
God thing I ignored his recommendation.

>> No.18357293

>>18357270
Hitler and Wittgenstein attended the same school for one academic year, but though they were the same age, Hitler was one year behind his peers, and Wittgenstein one year ahead of his peers, and so they were never in the same class.

That photo is from 1901, and Wittgenstein didn't attend the school until 1903, so it is not Wittgenstein in that picture.

There is no evidence they interacted.

>> No.18357298

>>18357274
It's an interesting book.