Wittgenstein – The Consolations of Writing

Speech

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. – Ludwig Wittgenstein If poets and statisticians ate together, would their talk make sense? What figures and what facts could they summon up then as they spoke? What heart would lie within each number? How might every number lie? The trends we graph are true,Continue reading “Speech”

Philosophy is poetry if true

For truth is found in perfect, measured rhyme: The dance between the mystery and clue, The hint of infinite contained in time. Philosophy is true if it is said In words of simple honesty which ring With cosmic shimmers, and the truth is dead If language must obscure idea from thing. Plato’s only truth wasContinue reading “Philosophy is poetry if true”