- "a theory of logic, language and the limits of meaning which revealed, Wittgenstein argued, that traditional philosophical problems were based on linguistic confusion"
- "Wittgenstein’s project was himself – self-creation and self-maintenance in a form that he would be able to bear"
- "maintaining his self-possession through “distance from everything that happens”. That became the core of his spiritual ambition, and it is inseparable from his philosophical ambition."
- "there is no connection between the left- and right-hand pages for most of the first two notebooks, in the course of the third, a correspondence appears"
- "Wittgenstein held that a statement is meaningful only if it could be either true or false, depending on how the world is. That excludes not only tautologies, which cannot be false, and contradictions, which cannot be true, but other things people seem to want to talk about besides the contingent state of the world – such as philosophy and religion."
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